Azure Synapse Analytics Overview: A Data Lakehouse
2022TL; DR
Learn about the key features of Azure Synapse Analytics and how it can help you build a data warehouse or data fabric
Session Details
Azure Synapse Analytics is Azure SQL Data Warehouse evolved: a limitless analytics service that brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics into a single service. It gives you the freedom to query data on your terms, using either serverless on-demand or provisioned resources, at scale. Azure Synapse brings these two worlds together with a unified experience to ingest, prepare, manage, and serve data for immediate business intelligence and machine learning needs. In this presentation, I'll talk about the new products and features that make up Azure Synapse Analytics and how it fits in a modern data warehouse, as well as provide demonstrations.
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Azure Synapse Analytics
Learn all about Azure Synapse Analytics, including demos so you can see exactly how it works and how it can make your life easier.