Azure Synapse Analytics (formerly known as Azure SQL Data Warehouse) is a data analytics service from Microsoft. It’s part of the Azure platform, which includes products like Azure Databricks ...

For example, you can use the Azure Synapse Studio notebook to build a customer churn model in Python that accesses data natively from a Synapse SQL pool, as well as an Azure Data Lake source.

Using a connection to Azure Arc, which is part of the SQL Server 2022 setup process, on-premises users can now also opt for cloud-enabled billing to manage consumption spikes or for ad hoc use cases.