Introduction to Azure Synapse Analytics

This lesson is a quick introduction to Microsoft’s Azure Synapse Analytics. It covers serverless SQL pools, dedicated SQL pools, Spark pools, and Synapse Pipelines. It does not cover more advanced topics, such as optimization and security, because these topics will be covered in another lesson.

Learning Objectives

• Create and use serverless SQL pools, dedicated SQL pools, Spark pools, and Synapse Pipelines

Intended Audience

• Anyone who would like to learn the basics of using Azure Synapse Analytics

Prerequisites

• Experience with databases
• Experience with SQL (not mandatory)
• A Microsoft Azure account is recommended if you want to do the demos yourself (sign up for a free trial at https://azure.microsoft.com/free if you don’t have an account)

Resources

• Sample code in this lesson