You're reading from Limitless Analytics with Azure Synapse An end-to-end analytics service for data processing, management, and ingestion for BI and ML

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800205659

Length 392 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Azure

Concepts

Data Processing

Authors (2):

Saranya Ravichander

Prashant Kumar Mishra

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: The Basics and Key Concepts

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Azure Synapse FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Considerations for Your Compute Environment

4. Section 2: Data Ingestion and Orchestration

5. Chapter 3: Bringing Your Data to Azure Synapse

6. Chapter 4: Using Synapse Pipelines to Orchestrate Your Data

7. Chapter 5: Using Synapse Link with Azure Cosmos DB

8. Section 3: Azure Synapse for Data Scientists and Business Analysts

9. Chapter 6: Working with T-SQL in Azure Synapse

10. Chapter 7: Working with R, Python, Scala, .NET, and Spark SQL in Azure Synapse

11. Chapter 8: Integrating a Power BI Workspace with Azure Synapse

12. Chapter 9: Perform Real-Time Analytics on Streaming Data

13. Chapter 10: Generate Powerful Insights on Azure Synapse Using Azure ML

14. Section 4: Best Practices

15. Chapter 11: Performing Backup and Restore in Azure Synapse Analytics

16. Chapter 12: Securing Data on Azure Synapse

17. Chapter 13: Managing and Monitoring Synapse Workloads

18. Chapter 14: Coding Best Practices

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Enabling threat protection

It is important to protect our data from any anomalous activities that could be potentially harmful attempts to exploit our databases. Synapse provides you with two ways to protect your data against any threat. The first one is SQL auditing, which captures the activities related to all the changes to security, access to tables, and many more activities besides, to protect your data. The second is Azure Defender, which checks the vulnerability of your SQL pools and provides advanced data security for your data.

Let's learn a little more about Azure SQL auditing in the next subsection.

Azure SQL auditing

Azure SQL auditing captures all the events in a Synapse SQL pool and writes them to an audit log in your Azure Storage account. These audit logs can be used to analyze anomalous activities or unexpected behavior in the SQL pool.

This feature will be disabled by default, but you can enable it on the Azure SQL Auditing tab of your Azure Synapse...