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Azure Synapse Analytics and Notebooks output

Notebooks in Synapse

Azure Synapse Analytics’ most appealing feature at first glance is the Synapse Studio. One unified UX across data stores, notebooks and pipelines. Notebook experience is appreciated the most among folks who read a load of data that takes minutes or hours to load then do operations on it whether in data engineering, feature engineering or ML training. The ability to divide your code into smaller chunks that you control which to execute when is a powerful productivity tool.

Added value that the notebook stores not only code by also the results of your code so to speak, it has now a data storage capacity that makes some organizations that are highly regulated or handles high confidential information worried about it.

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Azure Synapse Workload Management

Workload management for cloud data warehouses is one of the most important administrative task for DBAs/Data Engineers (depends who manage the data warehouse). With cloud offerings fully or partially automating many other administrative tasks, the workload management becomes one of the few tasks that need special attention.

Also for customers who are trying Azure Synapse for the first time and got disappointed because of the performance is not as expected. In my experience, the main reason is not configuring workload management.

If I got your attention let’s dive in :) The discussion here will focus only on one part of Azure Synapse which is the Dedicated SQL Pools

Synapse Data-Warehouse Performance

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Azure Synapse Workload Management

Azure Synapse Workload Management

Workload management for cloud data warehouses is one of the most important administrative task for DBAs/Data Engineers (depends who manage the data warehouse). With cloud offerings fully or partially automating many other administrative tasks, the workload management becomes one of...

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Azure SQL Database Networking deep dive

Azure SQL Database Networking deep dive

Last year I published a series of youtube videos to explain with demos and whiteboard the Azure SQL Database Networking. I used SQL DB as an example for PaaS service however the same concepts apply on many other PaaS services....

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