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Azure Synapse - first contact

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Despite the fact I've spent the last two years working with Microsoft Azure cloud tech stack, I didn't have a chance working with Azure Synapse yet. Finally I've met this guy. The first impression is very good. Azure Synapse Workspace To create the first Azure Synapse you need to create an  Azure Synapse Workspace . If you are already familiar with Azure you may already know Azure Log Analitycs Workspace to examine logs and operation of your applications and resources. Here is the same. Workspace is created within the Azure resource group, building a landing page for its settings, analytic pools, security, and monitoring aspects. Azure Synapse Workspace will require a storage account to be created/selected under-the-hood. A storage account will be used to build Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 for the files you will manage by yourself (sample data for processing) or by the Azure Synapse itself (ex. PySpark trained models will be saved here as well).  The better place to deal...