You're reading from Limitless Analytics with Azure Synapse An end-to-end analytics service for data processing, management, and ingestion for BI and ML

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800205659

Length 392 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Azure

Concepts

Data Processing

Authors (2):

Saranya Ravichander

Prashant Kumar Mishra

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: The Basics and Key Concepts

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Azure Synapse FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Considerations for Your Compute Environment

4. Section 2: Data Ingestion and Orchestration

5. Chapter 3: Bringing Your Data to Azure Synapse

6. Chapter 4: Using Synapse Pipelines to Orchestrate Your Data

7. Chapter 5: Using Synapse Link with Azure Cosmos DB

8. Section 3: Azure Synapse for Data Scientists and Business Analysts

9. Chapter 6: Working with T-SQL in Azure Synapse

10. Chapter 7: Working with R, Python, Scala, .NET, and Spark SQL in Azure Synapse

11. Chapter 8: Integrating a Power BI Workspace with Azure Synapse

12. Chapter 9: Perform Real-Time Analytics on Streaming Data

13. Chapter 10: Generate Powerful Insights on Azure Synapse Using Azure ML

14. Section 4: Best Practices

15. Chapter 11: Performing Backup and Restore in Azure Synapse Analytics

16. Chapter 12: Securing Data on Azure Synapse

17. Chapter 13: Managing and Monitoring Synapse Workloads

18. Chapter 14: Coding Best Practices

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Creating restore points

Azure Synapse Analytics creates various restore points throughout the day by using screenshots. These restore points are available for 7 days and we do not have the luxury of modifying this retention period. But we do have the luxury of creating a new SQL pool in the primary region, by using any of the screenshots taken within the last 7 days. We can create our own restore points as well. Let's learn about both types of restore points in the following sections.

Automatic restore points

By using an automatic restore point, we can select any date and time within the range of the last 7 days to restore the SQL pool in our primary region. This is a built-in feature, so we do not need to enable this feature manually. However, if we pause our dedicated SQL pool very frequently, then these automatic restore points cannot be generated. Users do not have the privilege of deleting these restore points.

It takes just a couple of steps to create and restore...