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Limitless Analytics with Azure Synapse

Limitless Analytics with Azure Synapse

By : Saranya Ravichander, Prashant Kumar Mishra
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Limitless Analytics with Azure Synapse

Limitless Analytics with Azure Synapse

4.6 (16)
By: Saranya Ravichander, Prashant Kumar Mishra

Overview of this book

Azure Synapse Analytics, which Microsoft describes as the next evolution of Azure SQL Data Warehouse, is a limitless analytics service that brings enterprise data warehousing and big data analytics together. With this book, you'll learn how to discover insights from your data effectively using this platform. The book starts with an overview of Azure Synapse Analytics, its architecture, and how it can be used to improve business intelligence and machine learning capabilities. Next, you'll go on to choose and set up the correct environment for your business problem. You'll also learn a variety of ways to ingest data from various sources and orchestrate the data using transformation techniques offered by Azure Synapse. Later, you'll explore how to handle both relational and non-relational data using the SQL language. As you progress, you'll perform real-time streaming and execute data analysis operations on your data using various languages, before going on to apply ML techniques to derive accurate and granular insights from data. Finally, you'll discover how to protect sensitive data in real time by using security and privacy features. By the end of this Azure book, you'll be able to build end-to-end analytics solutions while focusing on data prep, data management, data warehousing, and AI tasks.
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Introducing Synapse pipelines

Synapse pipelines are used to perform Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) operations on data. This service is similar to Azure Data Factory, but these pipelines can be created within Synapse Studio itself. In this section, we are going to learn how to create a pipeline for copying data from different sources to Azure Synapse Analytics. We will also see how we can use multiple activities within the same pipeline and create dependency endpoints to connect one activity with another activity in the pipeline.

The following screenshot shows a Copy data activity in a Synapse pipeline:

Figure 4.1 – A screenshot of a Synapse pipeline in Synapse Studio

Figure 4.1 – A screenshot of a Synapse pipeline in Synapse Studio

These pipelines comprise various components, and we are going to learn about these components in brief in the following sections.

Integration runtime

An Integration Runtime (IR) is a compute infrastructure used by Azure Data Factory or Synapse pipelines to provide data...

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