Deep dive into Azure Synapse Analytics

Now that you understand why Azure Synapse Analytics was invented, we will take a deeper look at the services offered by Azure Synapse Analytics.

Azure Synapse Analytics is a fully managed, integrated data analytics service that blends data warehousing, data integration, and big data processing with accelerating time to insight into a single service.

The advantage of having a single integrated data service is that, for enterprises, it accelerates the delivery of BI, AI, machine learning, Internet of Things, and intelligent applications.

Figure 2.2 illustrates how a modern data pipeline can be built using Azure Synapse Analytics. In this example, the ingestion process starts from a blob storage source through to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 in the Azure Synapse Analytics workspace. Using a Spark pool, you can read from multiple data sources via Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 and Azure SQL Database and perform any transformations and data...