James Serra takes us through query concurrency with Azure Synapse Analytics:
A common question I here from customers is because of the performance of Azure Synapse Analytics (formally called Azure SQL Data Warehouse or SQL DW), can they run Power BI dashboards against it using DirectQuery (and not have to use Azure Analysis Services (AAS), Import the data into Power BI, or use Power BI aggregation tables), avoiding having another copy of the data (saving money), and having data “real time” (as of the last refresh of the data warehouse)?
There are two things to think of in considering an answer this question. The first is if you will get the performance you need (discussed in my last blog), the second is if a certain amount of concurrent queries or connections will cause a problem (the subject of this blog).
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