Data Platform Tips 83 - Data Warehouse Units

A SQL pool represents a collection of analytic resources that are being provisioned when using SQL Analytics. Data Warehouse Unit (DWU) is a unit of measure of resources (CPU, memory and IOPS) assigned to the analytic resources. The analytic resources can be scale out or scale back compute by adjusting the data warehouse units setting.

For higher performance, you can increase the number of data warehouse units. For less performance, reduce data warehouse units.

Note: Storage and compute costs are billed separately, so changing data warehouse units does not affect storage costs.

Workload Management - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-data-warehouse/resource-classes-for-workload-management

Memory and Concurrency limits - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-data-warehouse/memory-concurrency-limits