Mastering Azure Synapse Analytics: Learn how to develop end-to-end analytics solutions with Azure Synapse Analytics

A practical guide that will help you transform your data into actionable insights with Azure Synapse Analytics

Key Features

• Explore the different features in the Azure Synapse Analytics workspace.
• Learn how to integrate Power BI and Data Governance capabilities with Azure Synapse Analytics.
• Accelerate your analytics journey with the no-code/low-code capabilities of Azure Synapse.

Description

Cloud analytics is a crucial aspect of any digital transformation initiative, and the capabilities of the Azure Synapse analytics platform can simplify and streamline this process. By mastering Azure Synapse Analytics, analytics developers across organizations can boost their productivity by utilizing low-code, no-code, and traditional code-based analytics frameworks.

This book starts with a comprehensive introduction to Azure Synapse Analytics and its limitless cloud-scale analytics capabilities. You will then learn how to explore and work with data warehousing features in Azure Synapse. Moving on, the book will guide you on how to effectively use Synapse Spark for data engineering and data science. It will help you learn how to gain insights from your data through Observational analytics using Synapse Data Explorer. You will also discover the seamless data integration capabilities of Synapse Pipeline, and delve into the benefits of Synapse Analytics’ low-code and no-code pipeline development features. Lastly the book will show you how to create network topology and implement industry-specific architecture patterns in Azure Synapse Analytics.

By the end of the book, you will be able to process and analyze vast amounts of data in real-time to gain insights quickly and make informed decisions.

What you will learn

• Leverage Synapse Spark for machine learning tasks.
• Use Synapse Data Explorer for telemetry analysis.
• Take advantage of Synapse’s common data model-based database templates.
• Query data using T-SQL, KQL, and Spark SQL within Synapse.
• Integrate Microsoft Purview with Synapse for enhanced data governance.

Who this book is for

This book is designed for Cloud data engineers with prior experience in Azure cloud computing, as well as Chief Data Officers (CDOs) and Data professionals, who want to use this unified platform for data ingestion, data warehousing, and big data analytics.