Database Templates are a relatively new feature added to Azure Synapse Analytics.

They are provide a layer of abstraction over your Azure Data Lake Storage giving you an opportunity to build a semantic model.

They promise many benefits such as schema enforcement, discoverability and Power BI integration.

Barry will demonstrate these benefits through an end to end worked example. He will achieve this by using Database Templates to specify a semantic model, leveraging other tools in Azure Synapse Analytics to populate it, before consuming the Database Template in Power BI.