Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Synapse Link for SQL
Data-driven, quality insights are increasingly critical for companies to stay competitive, and the speed to achieve those insights can make all the difference. The costly and time-consuming nature of traditional ETL and ELT pipelines are no longer enough. At Microsoft Build 2022, we’re announcing the public preview availability of Azure Synapse Link for SQL, for both SQL Server 2022 and Azure SQL Database.Automating the Publishing of Workspace Artifacts in Synapse CICD
New features have been recently introduced in Synapse Workspace Deployment task V2 to facilitate CICD automation in Synapse. These features will give users the ability to do one touch deployments. Before introducing these features, users had to manually hit the “Publish” button from the Synapse Studio, to persist their changes in Synapse Service (Live Mode) and generate the ARM templates for deployment in the publish branch. This was a showstopper for a fully automated CICD lifecycle. With the introduction of these new features, users will no longer require the manual intervention from the UI, thus allowing a fully automated CICD in Synapse. Adding to this, these features to validate as well as generate the ARM templates for deployment using any user branch.Deploying Synapse SQL Serverless objects across environments using SSDT
The long-awaited feature for all Synapse CICD fans is here! SqlPackage now supports serverless SQL pools in Extract and Publish operations. In this article, I will demonstrate how you can run this utility in a DevOps pipeline to replicate your SQL serverless objects across different environments.Azure Synapse Analytics April Update 2022
Welcome to the April 2022 update for Azure Synapse Analytics! This month, you’ll find a highlight of the Spark 3.2 Public Preview, the new Dataverse connector added to Synapse data flows, a revamped exploration experience in database templates, and how to clone a lake database. Other new features are in SQL, Spark, data integration, and developer experience.NVIDIA GPU Acceleration for Apache Spark™ in Azure Synapse Analytics
With built-in support for NVIDIA’s RAPIDS acceleration, the Azure Synapse version of GPU-accelerated Spark offers gains of 2x on standard analytical benchmarks compared to running on CPUs, all without any code changes. Beginning today, this GPU acceleration feature in Azure Synapse is available for private preview by request.Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.3 is now in Public Preview
We are excited to announce the preview availability of Apache Spark™ 3.3 on Synapse Analytics. The essential changes include features which come from upgrading Apache Spark to version 3.3.1 and upgrading Delta Lake to version 2.1.0.
