Bhadresh Shiyal - Beginning Azure Synapse Analytics: Transition from Data Warehouse to Data Lakehouse

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This book is about beginning to learn Azure Synapse Analytics. It is the most modern data analytics platform offered by Microsoft. It is always challenging to start learning a new IT skill, as you will have to learn new jargon, concepts, methods, tools, and technologies as part of the process. Azure Synapse Anlaytics is no different. I hope that this book will give you a solid technical foundation for starting your journey in the new world of Azure Synapse Analytics.

Anyone with a little IT background, particularly in Azure cloud, will be able to understand the content of the book very easily. The book is targeted to data analysts, data engineers, data scientists, data architects, solution architects, Azure developers, Azure administrators, and so forth who are keen to begin their Azure Synapse Analytics journey. This book will be a good starting point. I have concentrated on some basic concepts in the first two chapters so that it becomes easy for anyone to start learning about Azure Synapse Analytics.

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