1. Why Synapse Analytics is Beyond SQL Data Warehouse
Dennes Torres Ascent Software

2. Dennes Torres Senior Software Developer
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5. What’s wrong with Azure SQL Data Warehouse?

6. The Name !
You don’t need Azure SQL Data Warehouse in order to make a Data Warehouse!
Azure SQL Data Warehouse is an MPP (Massive Parallel Processing) solution. You may need it for VERY BIG Data Warehouses

7. Historical Naming Problem

8. Azure SQL DW MPP Architecture

9. Compute Nodes and Distributions

10. Data Distribution
Round Robin
Hash
Replicated

11. Distribution

12. Resource Classes

13. Resource Classes Control resources used for each user
Can be Static or Dynamic
Appear as database roles
The administrator has the smallest possible
You need different users for different kinds of workload

14. Dynamic Resource Classes

15. Workload Classification

16. CEO Job: High Importance

17. Bigger CEO job

18. Bigger job blocks smaller jobs

19. Workload Classifiers CREATE WORKLOAD CLASSIFIER classiferA
WITH ( WORKLOAD_GROUP = 'wgDashboards’ ,
MEMBERNAME = 'userloginA’ ,
IMPORTANCE = HIGH ,
WLM_LABEL = 'salereport’ )
CREATE WORKLOAD CLASSIFIER classiferB WITH
( WORKLOAD_GROUP = 'wgUserQueries’ ,
IMPORTANCE = LOW ,START_TIME = '18:00’
,END_TIME = '07:00' )

20. Demo

21. SQL Data Warehouse is now Azure Synapse Analytics

22. Challenges implementing Analytics Solutions
55%
Of the organizations name data silos and data management difficulties as the biggest challenges to data and analytics strategies
* Harvard Business Review (2019), understanding why analytic fall short some, but not for others

23. Azure Synapse Analytics

24. Synapse Analytics
Synapse Workspace

25. SQL Synapse Analytics Synapse Analytics Studio Management On Demand
Artificial Inteligence / Machine Learning / Internet of Things
Intelligent Apps / Business Intelligence
Designed for Analytics Workloads at any scale
Synapse Analytics
SaaS developer experience for code free and code first
Experience
Synapse Analytics Studio
Multiple Languages suited to different Analytics Workloads
MetaStore
Management
Security
Monitoring
SQL
Python
.NET
Java
Scala R
Languages
Platform
Integrated Analytics Runtime Available Provisioned and serverless on demand
SQL Analytics offering T-SQL for batch, streaming and interface processing
Spark for big data processing with Java, Scala, Python and R
PROVISIONED
On Demand
Form Factors
SQL
Analytics Runtime
Data Integration
Integrated Platform Services for Management, security, monitoring and metastore
Azure Data Lake
Common Data Model
Enterprise Security
Optimized for Analytics
Data Lake Integrated and Common Data Model Aware

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36. Dennes Torres Senior Software Developer
Ascent Software
Trainer
MCT, MCSE Data Platform, MCSE BI, MCSD Web Development
Malta Data Platform UG Leader
Malta
MMDPUG
Dennes.Torres
@Dennes

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