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Published inApr 2021
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ISBN-139781800206557
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Ahmad Osama
Ahmad Osama
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Ahmad Osama

Ahmad Osama works for Pitney Bowes Pvt. Ltd. as a technical architect and is a former Microsoft Data Platform MVP. In his day job, he works on developing and maintaining high performant, on-premises and cloud SQL Server OLTP environments as well as deployment and automating tasks using PowerShell. When not working, Ahmad blogs at DataPlatformLabs and can be found glued to his Xbox.
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Pausing or resuming a Synapse SQL pool using PowerShell

In an Azure Synapse SQL pool, the compute and storage are decoupled and are therefore charged separately. This means that if we aren't running any queries and are not using the compute, we can pause the Synapse SQL pool to save on compute cost. We'll still be charged for the storage.

A data warehouse is mostly used when it's to be refreshed with the new data or any computation needs to be performed to prepare the summary tables for the reports. We can save compute costs when it's not being used.

In this recipe, we'll learn how to pause and resume a Synapse SQL pool.

Getting ready

Before you start, log in to Azure from PowerShell. To do this, execute the following command and follow the instructions to log in to Azure:

Connect-AzAccount

You need a Synapse SQL pool to perform the steps in this recipe. If you don't have an existing Synapse SQL pool, you can create one using the steps...

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Published in: Apr 2021Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781800206557

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Ahmad Osama

Ahmad Osama works for Pitney Bowes Pvt. Ltd. as a technical architect and is a former Microsoft Data Platform MVP. In his day job, he works on developing and maintaining high performant, on-premises and cloud SQL Server OLTP environments as well as deployment and automating tasks using PowerShell. When not working, Ahmad blogs at DataPlatformLabs and can be found glued to his Xbox.
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