This tutorial shows you how to connect your Azure Synapse serverless SQL pool to data stored in an Azure Storage account that has Azure Data Lake Storage enabled. This connection enables you to natively run SQL queries and analytics using SQL language on your data in Azure Storage.

Apr 25, 2024 · Our manager has asked us to investigate how to read data stored in a lake database using Azure Synapse Analytics to reduce our overall cost. We will focus on tables created by the Apache Spark cluster.

Jan 31, 2025 · Azure Synapse Analytics allows you to create lake databases and tables using Spark or database designer, and then analyze data in the lake databases using the serverless SQL pool.

Jan 1, 2019 · Azure Data Explorer integrates with Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage (Gen1 and Gen2), providing fast, cached, and indexed access to data stored in external storage. You can analyze and query data without prior ingestion into Azure Data Explorer.

Dec 10, 2020 · In this article, I will explain how to leverage a serverless Synapse SQL pool as a bridge between Azure SQL and Azure Data Lake storage. Note that the external tables in Azure SQL database are in preview.

Jan 19, 2023 · There are two ways to read data inside Data Lake using the Synapse Serverless engine. In this article, we’ll look at the first method which uses OPENROWSET to query a path within the lake. To learn how to use an external table to query a path within the lake, check out the part 2 of the article series.

Jul 22, 2020 · Data Engineers might build ETL to cleanse, transform, and aggregate data into ‘higher’ zones in the data lake. Data Analysts might perform ad-hoc queries to gain instant insights. Data Scientists might use raw or cleansed data to build machine learning models.

Oct 26, 2022 · Synapse SQL pool is a part of Azure Synapse Analytics workspace, which can be used to query data in the Azure Data Lake. It supports formats like Parquet, Delta, and CSV. You can query data...

Nov 9, 2021 · In this blog post, you will learn how to use serverless SQL pool and T-SQL language to analyze your Delta Lake files from your Azure Synapse workspace. Who this is for? There are two primary roles that will benefit from this blog post.

Here, I presented how to query a Data Lake using Azure Synapse Serverless Pool and the Lake database. Azure Synapse workspace enables us to create a SQL Database on top of a Data Lake, but this isn’t managed by Spark. In this type of database, we can only use a …