Articles related to Synapse Analytics. This can include Dedicated SQL Pools or Serverless SQL Endpoint related articles. There may be sub-categories for these two services inside Synapse, and the embedded Spark Pools and Data Factory pipelines as well.
What is dynamic SQL? Dynamic SQL is a programming technique where you write a general purpose query and store it in a string variable, then alter key words in the string at runtime to alter the type of actions it will perform, the data it will return or the objects it will perform these actions …
When creating pipelines in any sort of data flow to move data from an incoming source to a target location, ideally you don’t want to create single-purpose activities. These would only perform one action or set of actions on a specific set of source and target objects. E.g. take the source.sales table, filter out where …
Parameterize Synapse Analytics Spark Notebooks Efficiently Read More »
Overview Azure Synapse Analytics Serverless SQL Endpoint has the capability to query files that are stored in an Azure Data Lake using T-SQL code as if they were regular tables in a relational database.These files can be semi-structured or unstructured in nature. Using the Create External Table As Select (CETAS) functionality, you can even generate new …
Query Azure Data Lake via Synapse Serverless Security Credentials Setup Read More »
What is an External Table? This article will focus on the Synapse Analytics implementation of External Tables.However, note that there are other flavours of external tables and they behave slightly differently depending on which product you are using to defined it. SQL Server SQL Database Azure Synapse Analytics Analytics Platform System (PDW) External Tables in …
Dynamic External Tables in Azure Synapse Analytics On-Demand Read More »
