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Basics to Advanced: Azure Synapse Analytics Hands-On Project
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Basics to Advanced: Azure Synapse Analytics Hands-On Project

Build complete project only with Azure Synapse Analytics focused on PySpark includes delta lake and spark Optimizations
Last updated 1/2026
English

What you'll learn

  • MASTER AZURE SYNAPSE ANALYTICS END-TO-END – Understand and implement Synapse Analytics using real enterprise data engineering scenarios.
  • SYNAPSE ARCHITECTURE & EVOLUTION – Learn the origin of Synapse, why it exists, and how it evolved from traditional data processing systems.
  • SERVERLESS SQL POOL IN DEPTH – Query data directly from data lakes using Serverless SQL Pool with real-world analytics patterns.
  • DEDICATED SQL POOL FUNDAMENTALS – Understand Dedicated SQL Pool architecture, performance concepts, and enterprise analytics use cases.
  • BASIC TO ADVANCED TRANSFORMATIONS - Acquire a comprehensive library of 45+ PySpark notebooks for data cleansing, enrichment, and transformation.
  • SPARK FUNDAMENTALS FROM SCRATCH – Learn Spark core concepts and how distributed data processing works inside Synapse.
  • PYSPARK DATA TRANSFORMATIONS – Perform real-world transformations using PySpark including filtering, joins, aggregations, and window functions.
  • DATA CLEANSING & MANIPULATION – Handle nulls, duplicates, schema management, string manipulation, and complex transformations.
  • SPARK SQL & MSSPARKUTILS – Work with Spark SQL and Synapse-specific utilities to manage data and resources efficiently.
  • ADVANCED PYSPARK CONCEPTS – Implement UDFs, conversions, pivoting, and schema-driven transformations.
  • SPARK PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION – Apply optimization techniques to improve Spark job performance and reduce execution time.
  • DELTA LAKE WITH SYNAPSE – Implement Delta Lake for ACID transactions, schema evolution, time travel, and reliable data pipelines.
  • REPORTING WITH POWER BI – Connect Synapse data to Power BI and build analytics-ready datasets for reporting.
  • REAL-WORLD DATA ENGINEERING SKILLS – Gain hands-on experience aligned to real Azure Data Engineer roles.

Course content

23 sections225 lectures21h 27m total length
  • Introduction6:31
  • Project Architecture5:25
  • Course Slides0:02

Requirements

  • No Azure Synapse Analytics experience needed. You will learning everything you needed
  • Basics of Python programming
  • Basics of SQL language

Description

In this comprehensive, Basics to Advanced: Azure Synapse Analytics Hands-on project course, you are going to gain EVERY core concept, processing technique, and practical skill required to work confidently with Spark, SQL Pools, Delta Lake, and Power BI in real enterprise environments.

This is not just a tool walkthrough.

This course explains how data processing evolved, why Spark replaced traditional systems, and how Azure Synapse Analytics brings SQL and Spark together to solve real data engineering problems.


Inside this end-to-end Azure Synapse Analytics program, you will master:


1. AZURE SYNAPSE FOUNDATIONS & EVOLUTION

Understand the origin of Azure Synapse Analytics, its purpose, and how modern analytics platforms evolved (Introduction + Origin of Synapse)

2. ENVIRONMENT & WORKSPACE SETUP

Set up Synapse environments, Spark pools, SQL pools, and access configurations correctly (Environment Setup)

3. SERVERLESS SQL POOL MASTERCLASS

Query data directly from data lakes using Serverless SQL Pool with real analytics scenarios (Serverless SQL Pool)

4. DATA PROCESSING BEFORE SPARK

Understand traditional data processing limitations and why distributed systems became necessary (History before Spark)

5. EMERGENCE OF SPARK

Learn why Spark was created and how it transformed large-scale data processing (Emergence of Spark)

6. SPARK CORE CONCEPTS IN DEPTH

Build strong foundations in RDDs, DataFrames, execution model, and distributed processing (Spark Core Concepts)

7. PYSPARK DATA TRANSFORMATIONS – BASICS

Perform filtering, selection, null handling, duplicates removal, and aggregations using PySpark (Transformations 1 & 2)

8. PYSPARK DATA MANIPULATION

Apply real-world transformations including data reshaping, manipulation, and enrichment (Transformation 3)

9. SYNAPSE SPARK & MSSPARKUTILS

Work with Synapse-specific Spark utilities and Spark SQL for enterprise data engineering (PySpark 4 & 5)

10. ADVANCED PYSPARK TRANSFORMATIONS

Implement joins, string manipulation, sorting, window functions, pivoting, and conversions (Transformations 6–9)

11. SCHEMA MANAGEMENT & UDFS

Handle schema definitions, evolution, and custom logic using PySpark UDFs (Transformations 10 & 11)

12. DEDICATED SQL POOL FUNDAMENTALS

Understand Dedicated SQL Pool architecture, performance concepts, and analytics workloads (Dedicated SQL Pool)

13. REPORTING WITH POWER BI

Connect Synapse data to Power BI and build reporting-ready datasets (Reporting to Power BI)

14. SPARK PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION

Apply Spark optimization techniques to improve execution time and resource efficiency (Spark Optimisation)

15. DELTA LAKE WITH SYNAPSE

Implement Delta Lake for ACID transactions, schema evolution, time travel, and reliable pipelines (Delta Lake)

Who this course is for:

  • Beginners who want to step into the world of Data Engineers
  • Professional Data Engineers who want to advance their data analysis skills
  • Students who are keen to learn Data Analytics
  • Data Engineers who want to learn data warehousing in Cloud using Azure Synapse Analytics