Azure Synapse Serverless Pools: POLARIS Deep Dive

Bradley Ball will be our presenter on September 13, 2022.

Our meeting will be 100% online as usual. We will meet at 17:30 CDT (22:30 UTC for those outside of the area) to socialize and network with other data professionals. The technical presentation will start at 18:00 CDT

If you choose to read up on Azure Synapse in advance, Microsoft starts at Azure Synapse Analytics. If you are looking for the "Buck Woody" description of Synapse (Buck thinks that he can run the universe using just OneNote and Excel), Synapse is like Excel only more so.

This presentation is a technical "Deep Dive" in Synapse. It will cover topics like unstructured data and how to scale analytics in the cloud.

If you are looking for a Synapse introduction, consider the IDPA Des Moines meeting on September 12, 2022 covering Build a Data Science Playground with Azure Synapse Analytics.

If you are looking for more of a DevOps or "How do I make it work" presentation, consider the Quad Cities meeting on September 14. 2022 covering DevOps & CI/CD for Azure Synapse Analytics

Abstract:
As part of a multi-year project to re-architect the query processing framework in the SQL DW parallel data warehouse services the POLARIS distributed query engine was developed. If you work with Azure Synapse Analytics and analytical workloads then this session is for you. We will review our architecture for SQL Serverless Pools. We will demonstrate how to resize live workloads, deliver predictable performance at scale, and how to effectively handle unstructured and relational data.

Biography:
Bradley Ball is a Sr. Azure Engineer for the Azure FastTrack CXP PG at Microsoft, and uses his knowledge of data platforms to help onboard customers to Azure while working with Product Groups to refine Azure’s Data Services. He is the FastTrack Service Lead working with the Azure Synapse Analytics, SQL Server PG’s. He’s done some cool things like working as a Defense contractor for the U.S. Army and the Executive Office of the President of the United States for the Obama Administration. Prior to joining Microsoft he was a Data Platform MVP. He has presented at many SQL Saturdays, for Microsoft Data Platform User Groups across the US from California to Florida to New Hampshire and Puerto Rico. A frequent presenter at conferences and community events, author of two books and many articles on SQL Server, and Co-Host of the Tales from the Field Streaming show. He is passionate about enabling anyone using data to achieve greatness.