Introduction to Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Azure SQL Data Warehouse democratizes massively parallel processing (MPP) capabilities and enables organizations of all sizes to take advantage of petabyte-scale data warehouse processing on demand. SQL Data Warehouse is a cloud-based enterprise data warehouse specifically built and optimized for data warehouse workloads for systems with small to very large amounts of data. Because SQL Data Warehouse leverages distributed compute and storage resources, SQL Data Warehouse allows queries to scale out and take advantage of parallel processing for large, complex, analytical queries.
Azure SQL Data Warehouse includes four components that make up the architecture, as shown in Figure 11.3:
Figure 11.3: SQL Data Warehouse includes four main components
Control node
The control node is an Azure SQL database that coordinates data movement and computational workloads in a data warehouse. The control node receives the...