Learning Azure Synapse Analytics – Early Release

Just a quick post friends. As you may already be aware, with my friend and now Avanade colleague Richard Swinbank (@RichardSwinbank), we are at it again. Following the success and enjoyment of collaborating on Richard's book 'Azure Data Factory by Example', previously blogged about here. We decided to engage with O'Reilly on a new project, … Continue reading Learning Azure Synapse Analytics – Early Release

An Introduction to Delta Lakes and Delta Lake-Houses

Recording from the Hybrid Virtual Group MeetUp Abstract Once upon a time, there was a data warehouse and it lived happily as a set of tables within our relational database management system (RDMS) called Microsoft SQL Server. The data warehouse had three children known as extract, transform, and load. One day a blue/azure coloured cloud … Continue reading An Introduction to Delta Lakes and Delta Lake-Houses

How Interchangeable Are Integration pipelines Between Azure Data factory and Azure Synapse Analytics?

Inspired by an earlier blog where we looked at 'How Interchangeable Delta Tables Are Between Databricks and Synapse' I decided to do a similar exercise, but this time with the integration pipeline components taking centre stage. As I said in my previous blog post, the question in the heading of this blog should be incredibly … Continue reading How Interchangeable Are Integration pipelines Between Azure Data factory and Azure Synapse Analytics?