22-25 April 2026
SQLBits 2020

Modernizing & Migrating Your Data Warehouse w/ Azure Synapse

This session will dive into how to successfully migrate to Azure Synapse, all the way from code conversion to enterprise grade developer tooling, with real customer examples for product and migration experts.

 More than ever customers are modernizing on-premise analytics workloads into elastic cloud architectures to embrace new analytic capabilities, make better decisions, and gain a competitive advantage. Azure Synapse Analytics is the newest evolution in cloud data warehousing, improving not only the core data warehouse experience but also bringing in big data, Spark, and serverless querying all tgoether. This session will dive into how to successfully migrate to Azure Synapse, all the way from code conversion to enterprise grade developer tooling, with experts from the Azure Synapse product group and field team share their experience getting hands-on with customers and their workloads.

Speakers

Mark Pryce-Maher

geeksonscreens.com

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