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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Using Azure Open Datasets

This chapter helps you learn how you can use Azure Open Datasets to start exploring various features offered by Azure Synapse Analytics. We will also learn how we can read the data from these open datasets using Synapse notebooks. Microsoft provides a variety of datasets on Azure that can be accessed directly from Synapse. Synapse provides an option to add a dataset from the gallery of Azure Open Datasets. You just need to follow a couple of steps to bring the data to your Synapse account from the gallery of sample datasets:

Log in to the Azure portal at https://portal.azure.com.
Go to your Synapse workspace on the Azure portal and launch Synapse Studio.
Click on the Data tab in Synapse Studio and click on + to browse through the sample gallery:
Figure 7.2 – A screenshot of Synapse Studio highlighting the link to navigate to the sample gallery
You can see various samples from Azure Open Datasets. We are going to select the dataset...