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Azure Data Engineering Cookbook

You're reading from   Azure Data Engineering Cookbook Design and implement batch and streaming analytics using Azure Cloud Services

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800206557
Length 454 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nagaraj Venkatesan Nagaraj Venkatesan
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Ahmad Osama Ahmad Osama
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Preface 1. Chapter 1: Working with Azure Blob Storage 2. Chapter 2: Working with Relational Databases in Azure FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Analyzing Data with Azure Synapse Analytics 4. Chapter 4: Control Flow Activities in Azure Data Factory 5. Chapter 5: Control Flow Transformation and the Copy Data Activity in Azure Data Factory 6. Chapter 6: Data Flows in Azure Data Factory 7. Chapter 7: Azure Data Factory Integration Runtime 8. Chapter 8: Deploying Azure Data Factory Pipelines 9. Chapter 9: Batch and Streaming Data Processing with Azure Databricks 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Pausing or resuming a Synapse SQL pool using PowerShell

In an Azure Synapse SQL pool, the compute and storage are decoupled and are therefore charged separately. This means that if we aren't running any queries and are not using the compute, we can pause the Synapse SQL pool to save on compute cost. We'll still be charged for the storage.

A data warehouse is mostly used when it's to be refreshed with the new data or any computation needs to be performed to prepare the summary tables for the reports. We can save compute costs when it's not being used.

In this recipe, we'll learn how to pause and resume a Synapse SQL pool.

Getting ready

Before you start, log in to Azure from PowerShell. To do this, execute the following command and follow the instructions to log in to Azure:

Connect-AzAccount

You need a Synapse SQL pool to perform the steps in this recipe. If you don't have an existing Synapse SQL pool, you can create one using the steps...

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