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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Chapter 11: Performing Backup and Restore in Azure Synapse Analytics

High-availability solutions ensure that your data is never lost, even in the case of unplanned events, such as underlying hardware, software, or network failures. Azure Synapse Analytics uses database screenshots to provide the high availability of dedicated SQL pools. These screenshots create several restore points that can be used to recover your data to a previous state.

In this chapter, you will learn about backup and restore operations on Azure Synapse Analytics. We will begin this chapter by creating restore points for Azure Synapse Analytics; we are also going to create geo-redundant restores using PowerShell. Then, we will learn about the geo-backup and disaster recovery of Synapse SQL pools.

To learn more about these concepts, the following topics will be covered in this chapter: