Azure Synapse Analytics- Alternative for @@ROWCOUNT or ROWCOUNT_BIG – Quick Tip

This quick tip describes how to get Row Count in Azure Synapse Analytics (formerly Azure Data Warehouse).  Azure Data Warehouse doesn’t support @@ROWCOUNT or ROWCOUNT_BIG. The link offers an alternative. This article modified that alternative to return the row count value as an OUTPUT parameter so a variable can be set to the row count value….

Create a User to run ETL on Azure Synapse Analytics – Quick Tip

To run ETL on Azure Data Warehouse, it’s a good idea to create a user in a higher resource class. There are a number of ways to authenticate to Azure DW. See – Controlling and granting database access to SQL Database and SQL Data Warehouse The easiest (from a development perspective) is to create an…