Implementing Azure Synapse Link and Querying Replicated Data

Before diving into the implementation of Azure Synapse Link and querying replicated data, it is essential to know the rationale behind integrating these two different products. This learning is crucial because SQL pools on Synapse offer most of the features provided by Transact-SQL on SQL Server or Azure SQL. Consequently, it is natural to feel some confusion about when and why to use one product over the other. The easiest approach to clarifying this confusion is to consider the distinction between transactional workloads and analytical workloads.

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This section primarily focuses on the Implement Azure Synapse Link and query the replicated data concept of the DP-203: Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure exam.

Transactional workloads consist of the insertion, update, or deletion of production data, and the main concern here is “data quality” and “consistency.” Analytical workloads consist...