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 ...

Microsoft today announced a new service in its Azure database lineup during its Build developer conference keynote today. The Azure SQL Data Warehouse, which will go into public preview in June ...

Learn More. Microsoft’s elastic cloud data warehousing offering, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, is finally generally available, the software giant announced on July 14.

Azure SQL Data Warehouse entered a limited preview in late June of 2015 and opened up to a wider audience in October 2015, with thousands of customers already on board before today's general ...

The new offering's brand, a product of Microsoft's inimitable nomenclature approach, is "Azure SQL Data Warehouse Compute Optimized Gen2 Tier." A great name it ain't, but a good enhancement it is.

By default, Azure Monitor retains data warehouse metrics for 90 days. Azure SQL Data Warehouse also features tighter integration with Azure Analysis Services, a cloud-based analytics engine.

For now, SQL Data Warehouse is “designed for” data warehouses between 5 and 10TB, Wissner wrote. That way, Microsoft can take in feedback and figure out ways to improve the service.

Here’s how it works. Three-fold compute scale increase for Azure SQL Data Warehouse now in preview Florin Bodnarescu · Jul 10, 2017 10:34 EDT · Hot! 3 ...

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 ...

A new Azure SQL Data Warehouse preview offered as a counter to Amazon's Redshift headed several data-related announcements at the opening of the Microsoft Build conference today. Also being announced ...

Because data warehousing only requires processing power intermittently, SQL Data Warehouse decouples processing costs from storage costs. That can save a lot of money, Microsoft noted.