Processing Data Using Azure Synapse Analytics
Azure Synapse Analytics workspaces generation 2, formally released in December 2020, is the industry-leading big data solution for processing and consolidating data of business value. Azure Synapse Analytics has three important components:
- SQL pools and Spark pools for performing data exploration and processing
- Integration pipelines for performing data ingestion and data transformations
- Power BI integration for data visualization
Having data ingestion, processing, and visualization capabilities in a single service with seamless integration with all other services makes Azure Synapse Analytics a very powerful tool in big data engineering projects. This chapter will introduce you to Synapse workspaces and cover the following recipes:
- Provisioning an Azure Synapse Analytics workspace
- Analyzing data using serverless SQL pool
- Provisioning and configuring Spark pools
- Processing data using Spark pools...