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

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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Enabling the analytical store in Cosmos DB

You can enable Synapse Link on Cosmos DB directly from the Azure portal:

Log in to the Azure portal at https://porta.azure.com.
Go to your Cosmos DB account and click on Data Explorer.
Click on the Enable link while creating a new container:
Figure 5.1 – Enabling Azure Synapse Link on a Cosmos DB account
You can click on the Features tab to verify whether Azure Synapse Link is enabled or not. You have the option to enable it from there as well if it is not enabled yet:
Figure 5.2 – Verifying the status of Azure Synapse Link under the Features tab of a Cosmos DB account
Important note
The analytical store can only be enabled for new containers.
After you enable the analytical store, it creates a container with the Analytical Storage Time to Live property associated with the container. The default value is -1, which means infinite retention, however, we can change this value to any number of days and as many...