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 ...

The first generation of Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW ... ADLS capacity -- which can store Spark SQL tables -- is requisitioned along with it (as is Azure Data Factory). Spark SQL tables ...

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.