Azure Synapse Analytics - Highlights
Paraphrased notes from Microsoft documentation : Azure Synapse Analytics is an integrated cloud-based platform for big data processing and analysis . You can use it to build descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive analytics solutions . Azure Synapse Analytics combines a centralized service for data storage and processing with an extensible architecture through which linked services enable you to integrate commonly used data stores , processing platforms , and visualization tools . A Synapse Analytics workspace defines an instance of the Synapse Analytics service in which you can manage the services and data resources needed for your analytics solution. After creating a Synapse Analytics workspace, you can manage the services in it and perform data analytics tasks with them by using Synapse Studio ; a web-based portal for Azure Synapse Analytics . One of the core resources in a Synapse Analytics workspace is a data lake , in which data files can be st...