How to Set Up Your Azure Synapse Analytics Workspace (Beginner Guide – 2025)

 

🧠 What You’ll Learn

In this module, you'll learn:

• What Azure Synapse is

• How to create a Synapse workspace step-by-step

• How to configure linked services (SQL, Blob, etc.)

• Key setup tips for new users

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💡 What is Azure Synapse Analytics?

Azure Synapse is Microsoft’s unified platform for data integration, warehousing, and big data analytics. It combines SQL-based data warehousing with Apache Spark, Data Lake, and powerful ETL pipelines — all in one place.

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🧱 Step-by-Step: Create a Synapse Workspace

🧩 Step 1: Go to Azure Portal

• Visit: https://portal.azure.com

• Search for Synapse Analytics in the search bar

• Click + Create

🧾 Step 2: Fill Workspace Details

• Resource group: Create or select one

• Workspace name: Example – synapse-data-pipeline

• Region: Choose the one nearest to your users

• Data Lake Storage Gen2: Choose or create a new Storage Account and container (file system)

✅ Pro Tip: Keep naming consistent across services for clarity.

🔐 Step 3: Review Security Settings

• Set up Managed Identity

• Optionally configure Networking and Firewall Rules

🚀 Step 4: Click “Review + Create” → Then “Create”

⏱ It will take 1–3 minutes to deploy.

📸 Image Tip: Include a screenshot of the “Create Synapse Workspace” form.

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🔗 Connect Linked Services (Data Sources)

Once your workspace is ready:

1. Open Azure Synapse Studio (from portal or workspace link)

2. Go to Manage > Linked Services

3. Click + New and select a source (e.g., Azure SQL, Blob, etc.)

4. Enter credentials or use Managed Identity

5. Test connection → Create

✅ Use linked services to bring in data sources securely.

📸 Image Tip: Linked service creation screen in Synapse Studio

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⚙️ Initial Configuration Tips

• Set up Integration Runtimes for copy/move operations

• Configure Apache Spark pool if you plan to run big data workloads

• Turn on Git Integration if using version control (optional but useful)

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📌 What’s Next?

In the next module, we’ll build your first data pipeline in Synapse using the GUI.

📍 Next Up: Module 3 — Build Your First Synapse Data Pipeline