Azure Synapse Analytics Pre-Configuration Details
This page describes the Azure Synapse integration, configuration options, and features. See the Azure Synapse integration page for a tutorial on enabling the integration and these features through the app settings page.
Feature availability
A running dedicated SQL pool
Authentication methods
The Azure Synapse Analytics integration supports the following authentication methods to configure the integration and create data sources:
Username and password: Immuta supports SQL authentication with username and password for Azure Synapse Analytics. See the for details.
OAuth authentication with Microsoft Entra ID: You can use this authentication method to register data sources or configure the Azure Synapse Analytics integration using the . To use this authentication method, OAuth must be set up via . See the for details about using OAuth authentication with Microsoft Entra ID.
Immuta cannot ingest tags from Synapse, but you can connect any of these to work with your integration.
User impersonation
Impersonation allows users to query data as another Immuta user in Azure Synapse Analytics. To enable user impersonation, see the .
Multiple integrations
A user can to a single Immuta tenant.
Immuta does not support the following masking types in this integration because of limitations with dedicated SQL pools (linked below). Any column assigned one of these masking types will be masked to NULL:
Reversible Masking: Synapse UDFs currently only support SQL, but Immuta needs to execute code (such as JavaScript or Python) to support this masking feature. See the .
Format Preserving Masking: Synapse UDFs currently only support SQL, but Immuta needs to execute code (such as JavaScript or Python) to support this masking feature. See the .