SQLBits 2020

From Data Lake to Insights using Azure Synapse Analytics

Azure Synapse now provides a Query-as-a-Service capability to enable serverless exploration over your data lake with no infrastructure or clusters - all you need to know is T-SQL.

Join us to learn how you can use Azure Synapse to explore data in your data lake using the new serverless Query-as-a-Service capability and serve it to users without copying or loading data into specialized data stores. There is no infrastructure or clusters to manage in this fully serverless feature. All you need to know is T-SQL.

We will also explain architecture behind Query-as-a-Service that made querying petabyte-scale data lakes possible.

Spoiler alert: this is not a new version of Polybase, it is a new scale-out SQL architecture built for Azure Synapse.