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Azure Synapse Analytics (Azure SQL Data Warehouse) Reviews

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
September 18, 2019

Impacts of SQL data warehouses

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We use SQL Data Warehouse to load the operations and audit data for our company and produce analytical and operational reports out of it.
  • Easy to manage and support a wide variety of data types.
  • High Performance and throughput.
  • Reduced latency time.
  • Easy to manage objects.
  • Automated query tuning.
  • Better indexing methods.
Functions well as a transactional data store. It is less suited for analytical purposes.
I like their Support team.
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Samir Patel, PMP | TrustRadius Reviewer
July 22, 2016

SQL Data Warehouse- everything you need to know

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SQL Data Warehouse is being used to hold all of our summary level reporting. The data is loaded using SSIS and transformed into a star schema. SQL does a great job mapping all of the OLAP values and providing efficient structures to house all of the reporting data. We then use a reporting tool to build cubes and publish the data
  • It is very cost-effective
  • Development time needed was much less in comparison to other systems
  • Played very nicely with our ETL and OLAP reporting tools
  • More features would be a plus
  • I would like to see Microsoft offer some diagramming tools for data warehouse
  • I believe processing time and speed could always be improved

SQL Data Warehouse is always well suited in a Microsoft SQL environment. When you are using tools like SSIS, SSAS and SSRS, SQL Data Warehouse fits in nicely as the OLAP backend.

Some challenges faced for this product are in very large expansive environments where the transact databases might be coming from different sources like Oracle or Sybase.

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
July 15, 2016

Better than querying off your OLTP

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We use it to store large amounts of SQL data for our predictive analytics and big data modeling. We use it across several team but I cannot say it is used for the entire organization as my department operates relatively independently of the rest of the organization. We have an extremely large data sets and need to store it in a way that makes it accessible and fast.
  • Quick to return data. Queries in a SQL data warehouse architecture tend to return data much more quickly than a OLTP setup. Especially with columnar indexes.
  • Ability to manage extremely large SQL tables. Our databases contain billions of records. This would be unwieldy without a proper SQL datawarehouse
  • Backup and replication. Because we're already using SQL, moving the data to a datawarehouse makes it easier to manage as our users are already familiar with SQL.
  • It takes some time to setup a proper SQL Datawarehouse architecture. Without proper SSIS/automation scripts, this can be a very daunting task.
  • It takes a lot of foresight when designing a Data Warehouse. If not properly designed, it can be very troublesome to use and/or modify later on.
  • It takes a lot of effort to maintain. Businesses are continually changing. With that, a full time staff member or more will be required to maintain the SQL Data Warehouse.
It is very well suited for big data analytics. Predictive modeling, optimization, and other large scale analysis benefit from using a properly defined SQL Data Warehouse. It is also suited for simple business intelligence such as building historical and active dashboards.
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About Azure Synapse Analytics (Azure SQL Data Warehouse)

Azure Synapse Analytics is described as the former Azure SQL Data Warehouse, evolved, and as a limitless analytics service that brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics. It gives users the freedom to query data using either serverless or provisioned resources, at scale. Azure Synapse brings these two worlds together with a unified experience to ingest, prepare, manage, and serve data for immediate BI and machine learning needs.
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