Azure Synapse Analytics – the essential Spark cheat sheet
Author: Nghia Nguyen In this article, I take the Apache Spark service for a test drive. It is the third in our Synapse series: The first article provides an overview of Azure Synapse, and in our second, we take the SQL on-demand feature for a test drive and provided some resulting observations. This article contains […]
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Author: Etienne Oosthuysen Disclaimer: as Azure Synapse Analytics is still in Public Preview, some areas may not yet function as it will in a full General Availability stage. This article contains the Synapse SQL on-demand test drive as well as a cheat sheet that describes how to get up and running step-by-step. I then conclude […]
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Azure Synapse Analytics – Insights for all and breaking down silos
Author: Etienne Oosthuysen (And a party down the lakehouse) Cloud databases are a way for enterprises to avoid large capital expenditures, they can be provisioned quickly, and they can provide performance at scale. But data workloads continue to change, fast, which means conventional databases alone (including those running in data warehouse configurations) can no longer […]
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