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 […]
If you need to create a copy of a table in another database, the ‘Import Data’ option may seem convenient. If you’ve used this method to copy to your dev environment and found things break, this post is for you. By letting the wizard create the destination table automatically, you might find your schema is […]
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, […]
