{"id":195,"date":"2018-10-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sqlhammer.com\/presentation-introduction-to-azure-sql-data-warehouse"},"modified":"2026-03-18T21:53:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T21:53:20","slug":"presentation-introduction-to-azure-sql-data-warehouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/29\/presentation-introduction-to-azure-sql-data-warehouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Presentation: Introduction to Azure SQL Data Warehouse &#8211; SQL Hammer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/presentation-introduction-to-azure-sql-data-warehouse\/adw-744x400\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sqlhammer.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/a3-lazy-load\/assets\/images\/lazy_placeholder.gif?resize=300%2C161&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.sqlhammer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/adw-744x400.png?resize=300%2C161&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2>Introduction to Azure SQL Data Warehouse<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Track: <\/strong>Business Intelligence \/ Architecture<\/p>\n<p><strong>Level:<\/strong>\u00a0100<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On-premises data warehouse solutions are typically a large up-front capital expense which expensive boundaries to expansion. This led my organization to look to the cloud. In this session, I cover the basics of Azure SQL Data Warehouse, its massively parallel processing architecture, and why you should be interested in combining the flexibility and scalability of the cloud with a massively parallel processing data warehouse.<\/p>\n<h2>Materials<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Intro-ADW-SQLHammer-20180309.pptx\">Slide deck<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Conferences I have presented at<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/presentation-introduction-to-azure-sql-data-warehouse\/sqlsat719\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sqlhammer.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/a3-lazy-load\/assets\/images\/lazy_placeholder.gif?resize=239%2C67&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.sqlhammer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sqlsat719.png?resize=239%2C67&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/>\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/presentation-introduction-to-azure-sql-data-warehouse\/sqlsat719-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sqlhammer.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/a3-lazy-load\/assets\/images\/lazy_placeholder.gif?resize=239%2C67&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.sqlhammer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sqlsat719-1.png?resize=239%2C67&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sqlhammer.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/a3-lazy-load\/assets\/images\/lazy_placeholder.gif?resize=239%2C67&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.sqlhammer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sqlsat-boston-797.jpg?resize=239%2C67&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/>\u00a0 <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sqlhammer.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/a3-lazy-load\/assets\/images\/lazy_placeholder.gif?resize=239%2C67&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.sqlhammer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sqlsat-boston-797.jpg?resize=239%2C67&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Some feedback I have received<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/intro-to-adw-sqlsat716-3\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sqlhammer.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/a3-lazy-load\/assets\/images\/lazy_placeholder.gif?resize=238%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sqlhammer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Intro-to-ADW-SQLSAT716-3.jpg?resize=238%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/intro-to-adw-sqlsat716-5\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sqlhammer.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/a3-lazy-load\/assets\/images\/lazy_placeholder.gif?resize=245%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.sqlhammer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Intro-to-ADW-SQLSAT716-5.jpg?resize=245%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/intro-to-adw-sqlsat716-1\/\">\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sqlhammer.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/a3-lazy-load\/assets\/images\/lazy_placeholder.gif?resize=247%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.sqlhammer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Intro-to-ADW-SQLSAT716-1.jpg?resize=247%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/intro-to-adw-sqlsat716-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sqlhammer.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/a3-lazy-load\/assets\/images\/lazy_placeholder.gif?resize=246%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sqlhammer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Intro-to-ADW-SQLSAT716-2.jpg?resize=246%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/>\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/intro-to-adw-sqlsat716-4\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sqlhammer.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/a3-lazy-load\/assets\/images\/lazy_placeholder.gif?resize=249%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.sqlhammer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Intro-to-ADW-SQLSAT716-4.jpg?resize=249%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction to Azure SQL Data Warehouse Track: Business Intelligence \/ Architecture Level:\u00a0100 Abstract: On-premises data warehouse solutions are typically a large up-front capital expense which expensive boundaries to expansion. This led my organization to look to the cloud. In this session, I cover the basics of Azure SQL Data Warehouse, its massively parallel processing architecture, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}