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Data Modeling for Azure Data Services

You're reading from   Data Modeling for Azure Data Services Implement professional data design and structures in Azure

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801077347
Length 428 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Peter ter Braake Peter ter Braake
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1 – Operational/OLTP Databases
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Databases FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Entity Analysis 4. Chapter 3: Normalizing Data 5. Chapter 4: Provisioning and Implementing an Azure SQL DB 6. Chapter 5: Designing a NoSQL Database 7. Chapter 6: Provisioning and Implementing an Azure Cosmos DB Database 8. Section 2 – Analytics with a Data Lake and Data Warehouse
9. Chapter 7: Dimensional Modeling 10. Chapter 8: Provisioning and Implementing an Azure Synapse SQL Pool 11. Chapter 9: Data Vault Modeling 12. Chapter 10: Designing and Implementing a Data Lake Using Azure Storage 13. Section 3 – ETL with Azure Data Factory
14. Chapter 11: Implementing ETL Using Azure Data Factory 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 8: Provisioning and Implementing an Azure Synapse SQL Pool

Azure Synapse Analytics is an integrated environment used to create data analytics platforms at scale. The SQL pools of Synapse Analytics are an ideal platform to implement star schema analytical databases at scale.

In this chapter, you will learn about Synapse Analytics. You will implement a star schema database using Synapse SQL pools. The following topics will be explained:

  • Overview of Synapse Analytics
  • Provisioning a Synapse Analytics workspace
  • Creating a Synapse SQL pool
  • Implementing tables in Synapse SQL pools
  • Understanding workload management
  • Using PolyBase to load data
  • Connecting to and using a dedicated SQL pool
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