Cloud Data Platform Weekly

Hello and Happy Friday to you. There's a few bits and pieces I'd like to cover this week around Fabric Warehouses and a new Synapse Analytics blog, so let's get going:

Chatting to Azure Greg about Fabric Warehouses

?? Gregor Suttie - Azure MVP invited me onto his regular live stream show to talk all about Fabric Warehouses, I love these kind of discussions. We had a chat about the SQL engine, Synapse, and then went through a Warehouse demo. Video link.

Azure Synapse Blog - Metadata Based Ingestion

Hurrah, there's been a new blog published over on the Azure Synapse Analytics Tech Community blog (we've already been told there won't be an official monthly round up of Azure Synapse Analytics anymore...). This blog by Madhuvi Gupta walks through a meta-data driven approach to write data to the Delta format in Synapse. Read now.

Other Things I've Been Reading and Watching

• I've been getting myself up-to-speed with deploying Azure Synapse Analytics using Terraform, and what better way to do so that watching Heini Ilmarinen Terraforming Azure Synapse Analytics session at Data Toboggan. Watch now
• There's been plenty of Microsoft Fabric blogs and videos published and highlighted over in the MVP Corner, thank you to Pawel Potasinski for the work in curating this. My contributions this month were on Fabric Domains and also Transactions & Isolation Levels. Read now.
• If you want a deep dive into transcoding between Parquet and Vertipaq compression (and who doesn't!?!) then Bogdan Crivat is a guest on the latest Fabric Espresso talking about Performance at Scale with Microsoft Fabric: Query Processing with Stijn Wynants . Watch now.

Have a great weekend and I'll see you next week.

Andy