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Prashant Kumar Mishra
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Prashant Kumar Mishra is an engineering architect at Microsoft. He has more than 10 years of professional expertise in the Microsoft data and AI segment as a developer, consultant, and architect. He has been focused on Microsoft Azure Cloud technologies for several years now and has helped various customers in their data journey. He prefers to share his knowledge with others to make the data community stronger day by day through his blogs and meetup groups.
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Understanding Synapse SQL on-demand

SQL on-demand is a serverless distributed data processing system that enables you to analyze your big data faster. There is no need to set up infrastructure or maintain a cluster to start using SQL on-demand, so you can start querying data as soon the workspace is created.

In this section, we are going to talk about the architecture and components of Synapse SQL on-demand, the benefits of using SQL on-demand, and how you can query files in your Azure Storage accounts using SQL on-demand.

SQL on-demand architecture and components

SQL on-demand is serverless, so scaling automatically accommodates the resource requirements for any query. The SQL on-demand architecture also has a control node, a compute node, DMS, and Azure Storage, but it does not have an MPP engine; instead, it uses a Distributed Query Processing (DQP) engine.

The architecture, as illustrated in the following screenshot, explains how a control node leverages a DQP engine...

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