The widening of the preview also means that more users can check out if the team's performance and ease of use claims cut the mustard. The analytics service added new Synapse SQL features and, inevitably, built-in Power BI authoring. Synapse also gained some new toys in Public Preview at Build (something Kumar described as a "milestone"). Kumar had previously shown off Azure Synapse, a revved-up and rebranded of Azure SQL Data Warehouse (or "evolution", as Microsoft would have it), and its analytical capabilities at last year's Ignite event. Azure Synapse LinkĪlso hitting public preview, and some way from the grungy edge shenanigans of SQL Edge, was Azure Synapse Link, a "cloud native implementation of hybrid transactional analytical processing (HTAP)", according to Microsoft. Still, it is heartening to see the footprint being reduced while other products continue to pile on the pounds. "It runs everywhere." Indeed, the first SQL Server this writer used was version 4.21 and it ran happily enough under NT with a massive 64 megabytes of memory. "This is not the SQL Server of 15 or 20 years ago," laughed Kumar. "A lot of decisions can then be made very close to where the data originates," he added. Those devices can then run in environments that are online, occasionally conne " see a lot of customers using our big data analytics in the cloud to train and run their machine learning models," he said, "and once they come up with a model that they believe is meeting the requirements, then they mass deploy onto the SQL Edge devices."
Kumar cited AI training as an example use case for the technology. Running on 圆4 or ARM, with Windows or Linux doing OS duty, Azure SQL Edge is all about shunting the smarts of its bigger SQL Server brother to edge devices for more local processing and storage rather than maintain a constant, and potentially laggardly and expensive, connection to the mothership. Having lurked in limited preview for a while, Azure SQL Edge has been pushed out to a broader audience as the platform creeps toward general availability. Build There was SQL Edge and Azure Synapse news at Microsoft's reimagined Build gathering this week, so The Register had a chat with corporate vice president Rohan Kumar about the company's database ambitions.
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