18. Azure Synapse Analytics for architects
Azure Synapse Analytics is a groundbreaking evolution of Azure SQL Data Warehouse. Azure Synapse is a fully managed, integrated data analytics service that blends data warehousing, data integration, and big data processing with accelerating time to insight to form a single service.
In this chapter, we will explore Azure Synapse Analytics by covering the following topics:
- An overview of Azure Synapse Analytics
- Introduction to Synapse workspaces and Synapse Studio
- Migrating from existing legacy systems to Azure Synapse Analytics
- Migrating existing data warehouse schemas and data to Azure Synapse Analytics
- Re-developing scalable ETL processes using Azure Data Factory
- Common migration issues and resolutions
- Security considerations
- Tools to help migrate to Azure Synapse Analytics