In Azure SQL Data Warehouse, fact tables are distributed across nodes using a hash column, while smaller dimensions are replicated to all nodes and larger dimensions use the same hash distribution.

Azure SQL Data Warehouse was built on a similar elastic massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture that is found in its SQL Server 2016 database to provide column stores for storage ...

On the compute side, new, larger virtual machine types will allow each node to be powered at up to 18,000 DWUs (data warehouse units -- Microsoft's measurement of DW compute capacity), a tripling ...

Wissner explained how Azure SQL Data Warehouse expands upon the company's flagship relational database management system (RDBMS), SQL Server. "Azure SQL Data Warehouse is a combination of ...

Azure SQL Data Warehouse "Gen 2": Microsoft's shot across Amazon's bow Written by Andrew Brust, Contributor May 1, 2018 at 6:00 a.m. PT Microsoft yesterday announced major enhancements to its ...

Azure Synapse Overview. Azure Synapse, previously known as Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse, integrates big data and data warehousing into a single platform.. Its architecture is built on a ...

Azure Synapse, formerly the Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse, is built on a strong SQL foundation and seeks to be a unified data analytics platform for big data systems and data warehouses.

Azure SQL Data Warehouse was built on a similar elastic massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture that is found in its SQL Server 2016 database to provide column stores for storage compression ...