Azure Synapse Analytics or Synapse is a cloud-based analytics service that combines big data and data warehouse technologies into a single unified service. It allows you to pull data from wide range of data sources, not just Microsoft stack, but Google Cloud too.
Synapse is designed to be flexible and scalable enough to handle data of any size and complexity. Its distributed databases, big data processing engines, and data workflows can handle complex data scenarios to derive insights quickly.
DATA MANAGEMENT
When you import and analyze data from external sources you can use Synapse as a source for your PowerBI reports. But if your reporting data is large or complex you might use a SQL managed instance database or a datalake to store the results of your import and analysis.
Synapse can be used with SQL Server or other data warehouse solutions to create an optimized hybrid approach.
SCHEDULED TRIGGERS
Many organizations prefer that users don’t touch and can’t modify data when moved from one system to another. To improve governance, security and reliability, a hands-off approach is often best.
Use pipeline triggers to schedule your imports in Synapse to extract, transform, and load your data, and give your team up-to-date business insights.
Follow this link to learn about triggers.
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