Getting started with Azure Synapse Analytics

Most of the examples in this chapter will be executed in an Azure Synapse Analytics workspace, so let's look at how to create one. Proceed as follows:

1. From the Azure portal, search for Synapse. From the results, select Azure Synapse Analytics.
2. Once inside, click on + Create and enter the details for a new workspace. The Create Synapse workspace screen is shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 5.1 – Azure Synapse workspace creation

3. Once done, click on the Review + create button and, finally, the Create button on that screen to create a new Synapse workspace.

This workspace will provide us with Structured Query Language (SQL) and Spark pools, required to experiment with the various concepts that we learned in the previous chapters. Let's start by implementing compression in the next section.