Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics Questions

Netanya Carmi
Content Manager
PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)

Netanya Carmi
Content Manager
PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)
And why?

NitinKumarIf you are dealing with semi-structured data like json Snowflake has great… more »

RajneeshShukla
Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Hi community,
I am a solution architect for a global tech company with over ten years of experience.
What are the benefits of having separate layers or a dedicated schema for each layer in ETL?
One dedicated layer for staging, one for type 1 persistent tables, and a dedicated schema/layer for... Read More »

Gouri MishraHere are some of the advantages of managing data in different layers:
1.… more »

reviewer1389651I have over 15 years of ETL experience on "real world" projects & am now… more »

Data SleekTraditional ETL would usually use a dedicated database (or even database server)… more »

Miriam Tover
Senior Delivery Ops Manager
PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)
Hi Everyone,
What do you like most about Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse?
Thanks for sharing your thoughts with the community!

Miriam Tover
Senior Delivery Ops Manager
PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)
Hi,
We all know it's really hard to get good pricing and cost information.
Please share what you can so you can help your peers.

Miriam Tover
Senior Delivery Ops Manager
PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)
Please share with the community what you think needs improvement with Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse.
What are its weaknesses? What would you like to see changed in a future version?

Julia Frohwein
Content and Social Media Manager
PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)
How do you or your organization use this solution?
Please share with us so that your peers can learn from your experiences.
Thank you!

Miriam Tover
Senior Delivery Ops Manager
PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)
If you were talking to someone whose organization is considering Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse, what would you say?
How would you rate it and why? Any other tips or advice?

Miriam Tover
Senior Delivery Ops Manager
PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)
Jul 05 2022
Hi Everyone,
What do you like most about Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics?
Thanks for sharing your thoughts with the community!

Miriam Tover
Senior Delivery Ops Manager
PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)
Jul 05 2022
Hi,
We all know it's really hard to get good pricing and cost information.
Please share what you can so you can help your peers.

Julia Frohwein
Content and Social Media Manager
PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)
Jul 05 2022
Please share with the community what you think needs improvement with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics.
What are its weaknesses? What would you like to see changed in a future version?

Miriam Tover
Senior Delivery Ops Manager
PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)
Jul 13 2022
How do you or your organization use this solution?
Please share with us so that your peers can learn from your experiences.
Thank you!

Julia Frohwein
Content and Social Media Manager
PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)
Jul 05 2022
If you were talking to someone whose organization is considering Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, what would you say?
How would you rate it and why? Any other tips or advice?
Cloud Data Warehouse Questions

Evgeny Belenky
PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)
What are the relations between them? What are their use cases?

Richard WinterMany of the comparisons of data lake and data warehouse that you see (such as… more »

Wallace HughI assume the "Data Warehouse" term here is in the traditional/conventional… more »

Djalma Gomes, Pmp, MbaThose are just terms used by marketing. 30 years ago, BI required a… more »

Ariful Mondal
Consulting Practice Partner - Data, Analytics & AI at FH
Hi,
It seems that Snowflake is becoming very popular nowadays. I have done some training and live sessions by Snowflake.
I would like to hear your opinion about the main key parameters we should look for when choosing Snowflake over other cloud-based data lakes, such as costs, ease of use, ma... Read More »

RajneeshShukla
Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
I have seen bitmap index as the preferred choice in a data warehousing environment. I wanted to know reasons for that. As per my own experience, one reason is bitmap indexes are compressed and hence confined in less index space. When we have large number of FK indexes then this index space matter... Read More »

Gouri MishraBitmap indexes are useful for low cardinality column(s) for 3 primary reasons… more »

RajneeshShukla
Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
I am a solution architect for a global tech vendor.
I am looking for any general guidelines to allocate tablespace quota to different layers/schemas in the ETL flow of a data warehouse (% of total space in each layer).
I have these 4 layers:
Staging -truncate and load data from source files
... Read More »

Gouri MishraSpace requirement will be directly dependent on design considerations and data… more »

User
Which ETL or Data Integration tool goes the best with Amazon Redshift? Ex: Matillion, Informatica Cloud, Alooma, SnapLogic, SSIS

Ariel Lindenfeld
Sr. Director of Community
PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)
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- What are the key reasons for choosing Snowflake as a data lake over other data lake solutions?
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- Are there any general guidelines to allocate table space quota to different layers in ETL?
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