Connecting to External Data with Azure Synapse

In my latest video blog I discuss and demonstrate some of the ways to connect to external data in Azure Synapse if there isn’t a need to import the data to the database or you want to do some ad-hoc analysis. I also talk about using COPY and CTAS statements if the requirement is to import the data after all. Check it out here

Comparing Azure Synapse, Snowflake, and Databricks for common data workloads

In this vLog post I discuss how Azure Synapse, Databricks and Snowflake compare when it comes to common data workloads:

Data Science

Business Intelligence

Ad-Hoc data analysis

Data Warehousing

and more!