Microsoft yesterday announced major enhancements to its cloud data warehouse offering. Microsoft Corporate Vice President for Azure Data, Rohan Kumar, gave me the skinny in a private briefing in New ...

Microsoft's drive to put Azure SQL Data Warehouse on more equal footing with SQL Server is finally paying off. Azure SQL Data Warehouse gets less press than its online transaction processing brethren, ...

The first generation of Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW) was announced in 2015, and SQL DW "Gen 2" reached general availability in 2018. Today, at its Ignite confab on Orlando, Microsoft is ...

Microsoft’s Azure SQL Data Warehouse, the company’s cloud-based database service for big data workloads, is getting yet another speed bump today. A few months ago, the company sped up the service with ...

At its annual Inspire conference this year, Microsoft announced a 3x increase in compute scale as well as unlimited columnar support for the firm's massive parallel processing cloud offering. At its ...

To extend its array of security offerings for the proprietary cloud solutions, Microsoft has now announced a new feature for Azure SQL Data Warehouse. Available today in all Azure regions. As you may ...

There's a new buzzword on the loose, the "data lake." At first glance, a data lake could be easily mistaken for a data warehouse. The two big data concepts have a common focus on analytics and they ...