Azure Synapse Analytics July 2022 Updates

by | Jul 26, 2022

How to provide statement id in the serverless SQL pool support ticket?

Serverless SQL pool is a query service that enables you to analyze data in Azure Data Lake storage, Cosmos DB, or Data verse without a need to manage the resources, tune your queries, or do any other administration task to enable your data analyst to query data.

 

Ways you can browse industry templates and add tables to create your own lake database

With Azure Synapse Database Templates generally available, our customers are constantly wanting to see and learn more about how to use these templates. Through these blogs we want to share tips and tricks our customers can use to help them utilize these templates in an efficient way. We’ve recently received several questions around the different ways a user can navigate these templates to create their lake databases. In this blog, I’d like to walk through a few options that may come handy as you give database templates a try.

 

Azure Synapse Analytics – How to activate my Synapse workspace using ARM templates ?

Azure Synapse Analytics is a limitless analytics service that brings together data integration, enterprise data warehousing and big data analytics. It gives you the freedom to query data on your terms, using either serverless or dedicated resources—at scale. Azure Synapse brings these worlds together with a unified experience to ingest, explore, prepare, manage and serve data for immediate BI and machine learning needs.

 

Synapse Link for SQL Deep Dive

Azure Synapse Link for SQL greatly simplifies analytics pipelines as Microsoft manages the orchestration process for you. Since being announced at Microsoft Build, many of you have had the opportunity to try it out in a POC so now seems like a good time to take a deep dive on some implementation aspects that may save you time later.

 

How to use CETAS on serverless SQL pool to improve performance and automatically recreate it

Serverless SQL pool has a very cool way to handle CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE AS SELECT (CETAS). I mean, you can use a serverless SQL pool to create a CETAS which will materialize the query results. It means a heavy query in which, for example, the results would be part of future large join with other queries or aggregations that can be consolidated for reporting purposes. Those scenarios are examples that could be used as a CETAS. CETAS will be stored as a parquet file accessed by an external table in your storage and the performance is awesome. Later I am suggesting how to recreate the CETAS using pipeline against serverless SQL Pool.

 

For more information, view the blog here: July 2022 | Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics Blog | Microsoft Azure Synapse

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