Implementing a Data Analytics Solution with Azure Synapse Analytics (DP-3012) Virtual Classroom Live April 16, 2025

Course Overview

1 - Introduction to Azure Synapse Analytics

• What is Azure Synapse Analytics
• How Azure Synapse Analytics works
• When to use Azure Synapse Analytics

2 - Use Azure Synapse serverless SQL pool to query files in a data lake

• Understand Azure Synapse serverless SQL pool capabilities and use cases
• Query files using a serverless SQL pool
• Create external database objects

3 - Analyze data with Apache Spark in Azure Synapse Analytics

• Get to know Apache Spark
• Use Spark in Azure Synapse Analytics
• Analyze data with Spark
• Visualize data with Spark

4 - Use Delta Lake in Azure Synapse Analytics

• Understand Delta Lake
• Create Delta Lake tables
• Create catalog tables
• Use Delta Lake with streaming data
• Use Delta Lake in a SQL pool

5 - Analyze data in a relational data warehouse

• Design a data warehouse schema
• Create data warehouse tables
• Load data warehouse tables
• Query a data warehouse

6 - Build a data pipeline in Azure Synapse Analytics

• Understand pipelines in Azure Synapse Analytics
• Create a pipeline in Azure Synapse Studio
• Define data flows
• Run a pipeline

7 - Use Azure Synapse serverless SQL pool to query files in a data lake

• Understand Azure Synapse serverless SQL pool capabilities and use cases
• Query files using a serverless SQL pool
• Create external database objects

8 - Use Azure Synapse serverless SQL pools to transform data in a data lake

• Transform data files with the CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE AS SELECT statement
• Encapsulate data transformations in a stored procedure
• Include a data transformation stored procedure in a pipeline

9 - Create a lake database in Azure Synapse Analytics

• Understand lake database concepts
• Explore database templates
• Create a lake database
• Use a lake database

10 - Secure data and manage users in Azure Synapse serverless SQL pools

• Choose an authentication method in Azure Synapse serverless SQL pools
• Manage users in Azure Synapse serverless SQL pools
• Manage user permissions in Azure Synapse serverless SQL pools

11 - Analyze data with Apache Spark in Azure Synapse Analytics

• Get to know Apache Spark
• Use Spark in Azure Synapse Analytics
• Analyze data with Spark
• Visualize data with Spark

12 - Transform data with Spark in Azure Synapse Analytics

• Modify and save dataframes
• Partition data files
• Transform data with SQL

13 - Use Delta Lake in Azure Synapse Analytics

• Understand Delta Lake
• Create Delta Lake tables
• Create catalog tables
• Use Delta Lake with streaming data
• Use Delta Lake in a SQL pool

14 - Analyze data in a relational data warehouse

• Design a data warehouse schema
• Create data warehouse tables
• Load data warehouse tables
• Query a data warehouse

15 - Load data into a relational data warehouse

• Load staging tables
• Load dimension tables
• Load time dimension tables
• Load slowly changing dimensions
• Load fact tables
• Perform post load optimization

16 - Manage and monitor data warehouse activities in Azure Synapse Analytics

• Scale compute resources in Azure Synapse Analytics
• Pause compute in Azure Synapse Analytics
• Manage workloads in Azure Synapse Analytics
• Use Azure Advisor to review recommendations
• Use dynamic management views to identify and troubleshoot query performance

17 - Secure a data warehouse in Azure Synapse Analytics

• Understand network security options for Azure Synapse Analytics
• Configure Conditional Access
• Configure authentication
• Manage authorization through column and row level security
• Manage sensitive data with Dynamic Data Masking
• Implement encryption in Azure Synapse Analytics

18 - Build a data pipeline in Azure Synapse Analytics

• Understand pipelines in Azure Synapse Analytics
• Create a pipeline in Azure Synapse Studio
• Define data flows
• Run a pipeline

19 - Use Spark Notebooks in an Azure Synapse Pipeline

• Understand Synapse Notebooks and Pipelines
• Use a Synapse notebook activity in a pipeline
• Use parameters in a notebook