Reiss McSporran starts a new series on workload management in Azure Synapse Analytics:
So you’ve started using Synapse SQL Pools, you’ve scaled up to improve performance, but your queries aren’t going as fast as you’d hoped. You take a look at resource utilisation and you see that as you scale up, your total resource utilisation per query goes down. But didn’t we scale up to allow our query to use more resource and run quicker? What’s going on here? A little thing called Workload Management.
What is Workload Management? At a very high level, Workload Management allows you to control how your workload uses system resources. The main problem here is defaults!
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