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description: Recommendations on choosing the ideal number of data warehouse units (DWUs) to optimize price and performance, and how to change the number of units.
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author: WilliamDAssafMSFT
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ms.author: wiassaf
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ms.date: 10/30/2023
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ms.date: 04/17/2024
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ms.service: synapse-analytics
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ms.subservice: sql-dw
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ms.topic: conceptual
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Steps for finding the best DWU for your workload:
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1. Begin by selecting a smaller DWU.
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2. Monitor your application performance as you test data loads into the system, observing the number of DWUs selected compared to the performance you observe.
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1. Monitor your application performance as you test data loads into the system, observing the number of DWUs selected compared to the performance you observe. Verify by monitoring [resource utilization](sql-data-warehouse-concept-resource-utilization-query-activity.md).
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3. Identify any additional requirements for periodic periods of peak activity. Workloads that show significant peaks and troughs in activity may need to be scaled frequently.
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Dedicated SQL pool (formerly SQL DW) is a scale-out system that can provision vast amounts of compute and query sizeable quantities of data.

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