Azure Synapse Serverless vs Dedicated SQL Pool

Not sure on whether to choose Serverless versus SQL Dedicated Pools with Azure Synapse Analytics? Brad Schacht joins Patrick to talk about how to make the choice and get going with your data!

Serverless SQL Pool

Every Azure Synapse Analytics workspace comes with serverless SQL pool endpoints that you can use to query data in the Azure Data Lake (Parquet, Delta Lake, delimited text formats), Azure Cosmos DB, or Dataverse.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql/on-demand-workspace-overview

What is dedicated SQL pool (formerly SQL DW) in Azure Synapse Analytics?

Azure Synapse Analytics is an analytics service that brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics. Dedicated SQL pool (formerly SQL DW) refers to the enterprise data warehousing features that are available in Azure Synapse Analytics.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-overview-what-is