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Azure Synapse Analytics Cookbook
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Azure Synapse Analytics Cookbook

by Gaurav Agarwal(BLR), Meenakshi Muralidharan
April 2022
Beginner to intermediate
238 pages
4h 6m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 2: Creating Robust Data Pipelines and Data Transformation

In this chapter, we will cover how to load and enrich data using the power of Apache Spark in Azure Synapse Analytics. We will learn about and understand various concepts and recipes for writing Spark data frames to read data from Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) and writing to a SQL pool using PySpark.

This chapter comprises the following recipes:

  • Reading and writing data from ADLS Gen2 using PySpark
  • Visualizing data in a Synapse notebook

Reading and writing data from ADLS Gen2 using PySpark

Azure Synapse can take advantage of reading and writing data from the files that are placed in the ADLS2 using Apache Spark. You can read different file formats from Azure Storage with ...

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ISBN: 9781803231501