Summary

Azure Synapse Analytics is a groundbreaking evolution of Azure SQL Data Warehouse. It takes the best of the Azure SQL Data Warehouse and modernizes it by providing more functionalities for SQL developers, adding querying with serverless SQL pools, machine learning support, embedding Spark natively, collaborative notebooks, and data integration—all within a single service.

As you have learned in this chapter, data engineers can provision an Azure Synapse Analytics workspace in a matter of minutes and start building their end-to-end analytics solutions using a unified, simplified, and streamlined approach inside Synapse Studio. This remarkable and innovative all-in-one environment is a dream come true for many data professionals.

In the next chapter, you will look at Power BI and Azure Machine Learning. Later, we will see real use cases for how all of these technologies are integrated to provide the complete end-to-end data warehouse solutions that business decision...