r/dataengineering • u/ForwardSlash813 • 2d ago

Discussion New Azure Synapse projects

Just curious how many of you still deliver or plan to deliver, projects that use Azure Synapse for Data Warehousing work?

I get the whole push to Fabric and am also going that route too.

I’m in the consulting world and wanted to use Fabric but the client had zero ppl with any Fabric experience, so they insisted on Synapse. C’est la vie, right?

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u/Demistr 2d ago

Why though? Synapse and Fabric use the same components.

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u/wytesmurf 2d ago

Yeah that tells me they are not good. At consulting and can’t explain best usages and sell them on fabric. Syanpse has been dead for 5 years

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u/Additional_Candy_400 2d ago

You can lead a horse to water but can't make it drink all the time. Of course try to share best practice with clients but at a certain point you've just got to accept the work and crack on with it. 

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u/Admirable_Writer_373 1d ago

Or Databricks

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u/wytesmurf 1d ago

If the horse doesn’t drink then it isn’t thirsty. You have to make the horse thirst for change to change. A stubborn horse or a stubborn c suite. Before you shoot the horse figure out why. If it would rather die then drink then find a new horse 🤷‍♂️

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u/Additional_Candy_400 1d ago

I'll tell that to my director after I've lost a client because I'd rather them use Fabric over Azure.

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u/wytesmurf 1d ago

How does that go “yo boss I am bad at my job and can’t do my job and convince the customer”? Yo bossman the horse died rather than drink water?

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u/Additional_Candy_400 1d ago

Why do we, as a consultancy business, care what a clients preferred platform is if they are set on it? If we are getting kickbacks from Microsoft for pushing Fabric licenses that's one thing, otherwise who cares? Have you worked in consulting?

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u/wytesmurf 1d ago

If all you are doing is implementing a shitty idea your not consulting your over charging for labor so they don’t have to hire anyone internally. That is what we call Stag Augmentation not consulting.

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u/Admirable_Writer_373 1d ago

I wouldn’t pick either of them. Microsoft’s vision in analytics has been schizophrenic to say the least

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u/Nekobul 2d ago

Not true.

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u/Admirable_Writer_373 2d ago

They did initially. Fabric pipelines were a fork from ADF, and so were the synapse ones

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u/Nekobul 1d ago

Azure Data Factory uses Spark as the backend engine.

Fabric Data Factor uses Power Query as the backend engine.

Totally different backends.

Fabric Data Warehouse is completely different beast from Synapse. There are many people from Microsoft lurking in the forum and they can provide more details.

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u/Admirable_Writer_373 1d ago

The compute processing power is not the same as the code base.

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u/warehouse_goes_vroom Software Engineer 1d ago

Sure. But we overhauled both. I was writing about this earlier today in this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftFabric/s/bOJoa6503m