Jovan Popovic

Azure SQL can read Azure Data Lake storage files using Synapse SQL external tables

December 10th, 2020

Serverless Synapse SQL pool in Azure Synapse Analytics is a T-SQL query engine that enables you to read the files placed on Azure storage. You can easily integrate your Azure SQL engine with Synapse SQL to delegate big data analytics and analyze large amount of data placed on Azure.

Use Linked server to Synapse SQL to implement Polybase-like scenarios in Managed Instance

June 24th, 2020

Serverless Synapse SQL pool enables you to query files on Azure Data Lake Storage. Azure SQL Managed Instance can use linked servers to query data on Azure Storage using Synapse Analytics serverless SQL query endpoint. This technique linked server may be good solution for some Polybase-like scenarios.