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Limitless Analytics with Azure Synapse

You're reading from  Limitless Analytics with Azure Synapse

Product type Book
Published in Jun 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800205659
Pages 392 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Prashant Kumar Mishra Prashant Kumar Mishra
Profile icon Prashant Kumar Mishra

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface Section 1: The Basics and Key Concepts
Chapter 1: Introduction to Azure Synapse Chapter 2: Considerations for Your Compute Environment Section 2: Data Ingestion and Orchestration
Chapter 3: Bringing Your Data to Azure Synapse Chapter 4: Using Synapse Pipelines to Orchestrate Your Data Chapter 5: Using Synapse Link with Azure Cosmos DB Section 3: Azure Synapse for Data Scientists and Business Analysts
Chapter 6: Working with T-SQL in Azure Synapse Chapter 7: Working with R, Python, Scala, .NET, and Spark SQL in Azure Synapse Chapter 8: Integrating a Power BI Workspace with Azure Synapse Chapter 9: Perform Real-Time Analytics on Streaming Data Chapter 10: Generate Powerful Insights on Azure Synapse Using Azure ML Section 4: Best Practices
Chapter 11: Performing Backup and Restore in Azure Synapse Analytics Chapter 12: Securing Data on Azure Synapse Chapter 13: Managing and Monitoring Synapse Workloads Chapter 14: Coding Best Practices Other Books You May Enjoy

Using Azure Open Datasets

This chapter helps you learn how you can use Azure Open Datasets to start exploring various features offered by Azure Synapse Analytics. We will also learn how we can read the data from these open datasets using Synapse notebooks. Microsoft provides a variety of datasets on Azure that can be accessed directly from Synapse. Synapse provides an option to add a dataset from the gallery of Azure Open Datasets. You just need to follow a couple of steps to bring the data to your Synapse account from the gallery of sample datasets:

  1. Log in to the Azure portal at https://portal.azure.com.
  2. Go to your Synapse workspace on the Azure portal and launch Synapse Studio.
  3. Click on the Data tab in Synapse Studio and click on + to browse through the sample gallery:
    Figure 7.2 – A screenshot of Synapse Studio highlighting the link to navigate to the sample gallery

    Figure 7.2 – A screenshot of Synapse Studio highlighting the link to navigate to the sample gallery

  4. You can see various samples from Azure Open Datasets. We are going to select the dataset...
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