My favorite 10 Azure Synapse Analytics features

2022

TL; DR

Azure Synapse provides a huge set of analytics options - from SQL, Data Explorer and Spark pools to a Data Lake, Lake databases and powerful integrations with i.e. Power BI. In this session, I would like to demo you my 10 favorite features.

Session Details

Azure Synapse allows you to analyze data of different formats, volumes and sources under one umbrella - the Synapse workspace. You can decide if you want to use SQL, spark or Data Explorer analytic runtimes. After a few years of customer projects using Synapse Analytics, I want to share my Top 10 features with you. See and feel Synapse in action and demos! Btw: What is your favorite Synapse Analytics feature?

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