22-25 April 2026 
Seven Synapse Challenges
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Are you ready to test your ability to master the seven synapse challenges? This exciting, informative and unique full day hands on workshop pairs attendees up in groups to solve a set of common scenarios.
Session Details
Are you ready to become a Azure Synapse Analytics
This exciting, informative and unique full day hands on workshop pairs attendees up in groups to solve a set of common scenarios including Synapse Security and Configuration, Data Lake Design, Data Exploration with Serverless Pools, Query Tuning and Optimizing Dedicated Pools, and Implementing data integration using Pipelines and Spark Notebooks. Along the way the instructors will provide a high level overview of the major components as well as provide guidance and tips from dozens of real-world implementations.
Although previous hands-on experience with Azure Synapse Analytics is not required. Attendees should have some basic TSQL And / Or Python and basic Azure knowledge. Teams will be paired up so that that there is a good mix of backgrounds and experiences. At the close of the workshop candidate solutions will be presented and discussed
Are you ready to test your ability to master the seven synapse challenges?
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Speakers
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