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Clarifying Nomenclature around Azure Synapse Analytics

James Serra clears a few things up:

I see a lot of confusion among many people on what features are available today in Azure Synapse Analytics (formally called Azure SQL Data Warehouse) and what features are coming in the future. Below is a picture (click to zoom) that I describe below that hopefully clears things up:

I tend to just say “Azure Synapse Analytics SQL Pools” for the product formerly known as Azure SQL Data Warehouse and save “Azure Synapse Analytics” to include Spark + hyperscale (James’s v3).