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 ...

After considering the options, the bank apparently asked Kognitio if it could provide a solution to this SQL query throughput problem. Kognitio took the challenge, and adapted its platform to run ...

Microsoft has enhanced Azure SQL Data Warehouse to provide what the company is claiming is at least double the query performance. Jason Zander, executive vice president of Microsoft Azure, credits ...

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

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.

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.

With SQL Data Warehouse, Microsoft adds yet another product to its range of database services that now include SQL Database for regular relational databases and the DocumentDB NoSQL document ...

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 ...