You're reading from Limitless Analytics with Azure Synapse An end-to-end analytics service for data processing, management, and ingestion for BI and ML

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800205659

Length 392 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Azure

Concepts

Data Processing

Authors (2):

Saranya Ravichander

Prashant Kumar Mishra

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: The Basics and Key Concepts

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Azure Synapse FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Considerations for Your Compute Environment

4. Section 2: Data Ingestion and Orchestration

5. Chapter 3: Bringing Your Data to Azure Synapse

6. Chapter 4: Using Synapse Pipelines to Orchestrate Your Data

7. Chapter 5: Using Synapse Link with Azure Cosmos DB

8. Section 3: Azure Synapse for Data Scientists and Business Analysts

9. Chapter 6: Working with T-SQL in Azure Synapse

10. Chapter 7: Working with R, Python, Scala, .NET, and Spark SQL in Azure Synapse

11. Chapter 8: Integrating a Power BI Workspace with Azure Synapse

12. Chapter 9: Perform Real-Time Analytics on Streaming Data

13. Chapter 10: Generate Powerful Insights on Azure Synapse Using Azure ML

14. Section 4: Best Practices

15. Chapter 11: Performing Backup and Restore in Azure Synapse Analytics

16. Chapter 12: Securing Data on Azure Synapse

17. Chapter 13: Managing and Monitoring Synapse Workloads

18. Chapter 14: Coding Best Practices

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Preface

Azure Synapse Analytics is an analytics platform offered by the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. This book will help you understand the basic concepts of Azure Synapse and get you familiar with how it works in practice, step by step. This book has been written in simple language and with plenty of diagrams to make it easier for you to understand the concepts.

Each main topic has a whole chapter dedicated to it, such that even the minor concepts are explained in detail. You just need to have a basic knowledge of SQL Data Warehouse and Azure generally to follow the topics in this book.

To fully understand Azure Synapse, you need to understand a few other technologies as well, such as Power BI, Azure Data Factory, and Azure Machine Learning. I have tried to cover these services and how they are integrated together with Azure Synapse. Overall, this book should leave anyone well equipped to start working on Azure's analytics platform within a week.