Azure Synapse Analytics - One Data & Analytics Platform to Rule Them All!

Azure Synapse Analytics is a cloud hosted analytics service in Azure that unifies data ingestion, data warehousing and data analytics at extreme scale. Basically, it’s a one-stop shop for all your data and analytics needs no matter how much data! It offers ways to consume data in dedicated SQL resources or serverless SQL resources in data lakes as well as analyze data in Apache Spark. Using demos, we will learn how to setup and start using Azure Synapse Analytics and understand why you want to use Azure Synapse Analytics. We will see how to take data and bring it in to Synapse and consume it in Synapse and in tools like Power BI and Apache Spark.