Azure Synapse MVP Corner - October 2022

About this blog series

Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, or MVPs, are technology experts who passionately share their knowledge with the community. They are always on the "bleeding edge" and have an unstoppable urge to get their hands on new, exciting technologies. They have very deep knowledge of Microsoft products and services, while also being able to bring together diverse platforms, products and solutions, to solve real world problems. To learn about the Microsoft MVP Award and to find MVPs visit the official website: https://mvp.microsoft.com/.

The Azure Synapse Analytics team presents you with a blog series "Azure Synapse MVP Corner" to highlight selected content created by MVPs.

This month's MVP content

Blog post: Four different ways to incorporate Azure Synapse and Power BI

Published by MVP: Ginger Grant (Twitter: @desertislesql)

Description: Describe different methods of using Power BI and Azure Synapse, including browsing, source for dedicated pools, Data Lakehouse and serverless SQL databases. The post also includes a link to a recent video where Ginger discussed this topic for the DFW Power BI User Group.

Blog post: Connecting to Azure Storage from Synapse Analytics using Private Endpoint

Published by MVP: Adrian Chodkowski (Twitter: @Adrian_SQL)

Description: Security is a very important aspect of every cloud-based project. Synapse Analytics ecosystem allows us to configure many different options including networking and connectivity. In this article, Adrian demonstrates how to set up a private endpoint from Synapse Analytics to external Data Lake storage.

Video: Empowering Azure Synapse Analytics with Azure AD

Published by MVP: Heini Ilmarinen (Twitter: @HeiniIlmarinen)

Description: When working with Azure data services it is nearly impossible to ignore Azure AD. It is what we can use to secure Synapse Analytics as well as to powerfully manage access control within Synapse. To start making any sense of this, in this video Heini walks through the essentials of what you need to know about Azure AD, and how to make the most out of Azure AD when setting up Azure Synapse Analytics - both in terms of giving users the access they require, as well as allowing an external service to authenticate to Synapse using Azure AD.

Call to action

• Read / watch the content listed above.
• If you like the content, subscribe to the blogs or YouTube channels of the MVPs.
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• Stay tuned for the future "MVP Corner" blog posts!