Ignite 2019: Microsoft has revved its Azure SQL Data Warehouse, re-branding it Synapse Analytics, and integrating Apache Spark, Azure Data Lake Storage and Azure Data Factory, with a unified Web ...

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.

SQL Server 2019 is still at the preview stage, although it's now reached Community Technology Preview (CTP) 2.1, according to Rohan Kumar, Microsoft's corporate vice president for Azure Data, in ...

The days are numbered for on-premise data warehousing solutions like Teradata, Oracle, SQL Server and DB2. Cloud data warehouse solutions like Google BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift and Azure SQL/DW ...

Microsoft detailed a raft of improvements coming to its database products at this week's PASS Summit, including migration support to Azure SQL Database, Apache Kafka Support on Azure Event Hubs, Azure ...

SQL Server, SQL Azure and SQL DW [Data Warehouse] all share the same development branch. We have feature switches (like trace flags) that control what capabilities are enabled in a given product.

Over at Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Microsoft’s elastic cloud data warehousing offering, the company announced it raised the PolyBase row width limitation, offering customers a more seamless data ...

New Database Project Support Targeting SQL Data Warehouse (source: Microsoft). Simplifying that experience through SSDT in Visual Studio was first requested by a developer named Aaron Kim in an April ...

Put away the Halloween candy, and dust off your stuffed turkeys, folks. October is long gone, as are a fresh set of announcements from Microsoft about changes to its Azure cloud platform. Here's ...