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 ...

And with a combination of data warehouse, data lake, SQL Server-derived, open source and globally distributed NoSQL database services, Microsoft is not cutting corners in its efforts to play and win.

No need to spin up separate Apache Spark clusters, vendor claims Snowflake is launching a client connector to run Apache ...

In response to "petabyte scale" analysis needs - a petabyte being 1,000 TB - Data Warehouse is increasing its compute power from the current maximum of 6,000 DWU (Data Warehouse Units) to 18,000 DWU.

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.

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.

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 Database and Azure SQL Data Warehouse. If there are feature gaps, you can file an issue on our Issues page.” The feature release was made possible when dependencies in .NET Core were ...

The October release of Azure Data Studio (formerly called SQL Operations Studio) includes preview support for SQL Server 2019 and more. Azure Data Studio, which was introduced last year as SQL ...