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Azure Data Engineering Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Nagaraj Venkatesan, Ahmad Osama
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Azure Data Engineering Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Nagaraj Venkatesan, Ahmad Osama

Overview of this book

The famous quote 'Data is the new oil' seems more true every day as the key to most organizations' long-term success lies in extracting insights from raw data. One of the major challenges organizations face in leveraging value out of data is building performant data engineering pipelines for data visualization, ingestion, storage, and processing. This second edition of the immensely successful book by Ahmad Osama brings to you several recent enhancements in Azure data engineering and shares approximately 80 useful recipes covering common scenarios in building data engineering pipelines in Microsoft Azure. You’ll explore recipes from Azure Synapse Analytics workspaces Gen 2 and get to grips with Synapse Spark pools, SQL Serverless pools, Synapse integration pipelines, and Synapse data flows. You’ll also understand Synapse SQL Pool optimization techniques in this second edition. Besides Synapse enhancements, you’ll discover helpful tips on managing Azure SQL Database and learn about security, high availability, and performance monitoring. Finally, the book takes you through overall data engineering pipeline management, focusing on monitoring using Log Analytics and tracking data lineage using Azure Purview. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build superior data engineering pipelines along with having an invaluable go-to guide.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Provisioning an Azure Synapse Analytics workspace

In this recipe, we’ll learn how to provision a Synapse Analytics workspace. A Synapse Analytics workspace is the logical container that will hold the Spark pools, SQL pool, and integration pipelines that are required for the data engineering tasks.

Getting ready

To get started, log into https://portal.azure.com using your Azure credentials.

How to do it…

Follow these steps to create a Synapse Analytics workspace:

  1. Go to the Azure portal home page at portal.azure.com and click on Create a resource. Search for Synapse and select Azure Synapse Analytics. Click the Create button:

Figure 8.1 – Creating a Synapse Analytics workspace

  1. Provide the following details:
    1. Create a new resource group called PacktADESynapse by clicking the Create new link.
    2. Provide a unique workspace name. For this example, we are using packtadesynapse. You may pick any location.
    3. Provisioning a Synapse...