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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Managing Synapse resources

The Manage hub within Azure Synapse Studio allows you to manage your workspace within a unified experience. It gives you the option to create a new pool, pause an existing provisioned pool, or delete your provisioned pools. You can also manage linked services, triggers, and integration runtimes here.

You can also set up Synapse RBAC within the Manage hub on Synapse Studio and you can manage Git configuration for your code artifacts as well. We are going to learn about all these topics in the following sections.

Although we have already covered how to create a SQL or Spark pool in our previous chapters, in the following section, we will try to learn how we can create these pools using Synapse Studio.

Analytics pools

Azure Synapse supports two types of analytics pool, namely, SQL and Spark pools. These pools are basically two different compute environments that can be used independently as per business requirements. We will learn how to manage...