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Azure Synapse Analytics

Azure Synapse is an analytics service that combines analytics and data warehousing to create what the company calls “the next evolution of Azure SQL Data Warehouse.” You can login to your Azure Portal and search Azure Synapse & you will see “Azure Synapse Analytics (workspaces preview)”. Choose it and create Synapse workspace. Make sure before creating it, you need to register “Microsoft.Synapse” in your subscription.



Features of Azure Synapse Analytics:

Limitless scale GA Preview
Provisioned compute (data warehouse) Available NA
Materialized views & result-set cache Available NA
Workload importance Available NA
Workload isolation Available NA
Serverless data lake exploration NA Available
Powerful insights
Power BI integration NA Available
Azure Machine Learning integration NA Available
Streaming analytics (data warehouse) NA Available
Apache Spark integration NA Available
Unified experience
Hybrid data ingestion NA Available
Azure Synapse Studio NA Available
Instant Clarity
Azure Synapse Link NA Available
Unmatched security
Column- and row-level security Available NA
Dynamic data masking Available NA
Private endpoints Available NA

The predictive analytics using AI and machine learning is a critical element in every enterprise customer digital transformation journey. Current solutions involve creating ETL pipelines which are extremely complex, very expensive and challenging to maintain. These pipelines often got significant delay of hours, days, or even weeks, resulting in decisions being made on still data. The barrier between operational databases and analytical systems has been difficult to all come.
Microsoft announced Synapse Link in Microsoft Build 2020 which is an industry's first Cloud native implementation of hybrid transaction analytical processing. It reduces the complexity of building and operating end-to-end analytical solutions by enabling a simple, intuitive, visual, no code experience.
Synapse Link is removing the barriers between Azure’s operational databases and Synapse Analytics, so enterprises can immediately get value from the data in those databases without going through a data warehouse first.

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It allows you to take your Azure Synapse Analytics and point it directly at your operational database and do T-SQL queries against it without having to copy the data to Synapse. This means you can do real-time analytics without impacting your online or operational systems. This is especially important when you are talking about lots of data at big scale.
Currently, Synapse Link is only available with Microsoft’s Cosmos DB but Microsoft is planning to add support for available in Azure SQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL  and Azure Database for MySQL in the future.
Read Microsoft documentation of Azure Synapse Analytics : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/overview-what-is


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