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Synapse

Why Table Distribution Matters in Synapse SQL Pools

When designing tables in a Synapse Dedicated SQL Pool, I initially focussed on the ‘SQL’ and not so much the ‘pool’. How tables are stored is fundamentally different to other Azure SQL offerings, so it’s easy to get tripped up and impact efficiency and performance. Let’s see how the SQL pools work differently and how […]

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SQL

Basic Table Metrics

In Management Studio we can view object details by hitting F7 in Object Explorer. It gives us basic metrics but I find it very slow to load for the details I typically need. For that reason I though I’d share a script to turn to for metrics I commonly need. This query returns: The table details (schema, […]