Advanced Topics for Azure SQL Data Warehouse

2016

TL; DR

This session covers the more advanced aspects of development for Azure SQL Data Warehouse. Areas such as data movement, workload concurrency and resource management will all be covered during this intense 60 minute session.

Session Details

This session covers the more advanced aspects of development for Azure SQL Data Warehouse. Areas such as data movement, workload concurrency and resource management will all be covered during this intense 60 minute session. Topics covered include:

Data Movement
Workload concurrency
Resource Management
Statistics

3 things you'll get out of this session

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