Chapter 1: Introduction to Azure Synapse
Azure Synapse Analytics, formerly known as Azure SQL Data Warehouse, is not a mere data warehouse anymore. Azure Synapse is an amalgamation of big data analytics with an enterprise data warehouse. It provides two different types of compute environments for different workloads: one is the SQL compute environment, which is called a SQL pool, and the other one is the Spark compute environment, which is called a Spark pool. Now developers can choose their compute environment as per their business needs. Azure Synapse also provides a unified portal called Synapse Studio for developers that creates a workspace for data prep, data management, data exploration, data warehousing, big data, and AI tasks.
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