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Published inJun 2021
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Prashant Kumar Mishra
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Prashant Kumar Mishra is an engineering architect at Microsoft. He has more than 10 years of professional expertise in the Microsoft data and AI segment as a developer, consultant, and architect. He has been focused on Microsoft Azure Cloud technologies for several years now and has helped various customers in their data journey. He prefers to share his knowledge with others to make the data community stronger day by day through his blogs and meetup groups.
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Using sample scripts

Similar to sample data, Synapse provides a gallery of sample scripts. If you are new to Synapse Spark, this could definitely be a great place to start. We are going to pick a couple of scripts from the gallery to get ourselves acquainted with the different languages supported by Synapse.

Before we can start reading the data from Azure Data Lake Gen2, we need to get a Shared Access Signature (SAS) key for our blob storage. These keys will be used in our notebooks to access the corresponding blob storages. We can do so by performing the following steps:

  1. Go to your Azure Blob storage account on the Azure portal.
  2. Click on Shared access signature, check the Container box under Allowed resource types, and then click on Generate SAS and connection string:
Figure 7.10 – Generating an SAS for the Azure Blob storage account

Figure 7.10 – Generating an SAS for the Azure Blob storage account

In the sections that follow, we will learn about the different languages supported in a Synapse...

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Prashant Kumar Mishra is an engineering architect at Microsoft. He has more than 10 years of professional expertise in the Microsoft data and AI segment as a developer, consultant, and architect. He has been focused on Microsoft Azure Cloud technologies for several years now and has helped various customers in their data journey. He prefers to share his knowledge with others to make the data community stronger day by day through his blogs and meetup groups.
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