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Processing Data Using Azure Synapse Analytics

Azure Synapse Analytics workspaces generation 2, formally released in December 2020, is the industry-leading big data solution for processing and consolidating data of business value. Azure Synapse Analytics has three important components:

  • SQL pools and Spark pools for performing data exploration and processing
  • Integration pipelines for performing data ingestion and data transformations
  • Power BI integration for data visualization

Having data ingestion, processing, and visualization capabilities in a single service with seamless integration with all other services makes Azure Synapse Analytics a very powerful tool in big data engineering projects. This chapter will introduce you to Synapse workspaces ...

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