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.

Microsoft today announced a new service in its Azure database lineup during its Build developer conference keynote today. The Azure SQL Data Warehouse, which will go into public preview in June ...

Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure SQL Data Warehouse, a data-analysis service that many companies are likely to find important. Azure is the last of the three major cloud ...

Learn More. Microsoft’s elastic cloud data warehousing offering, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, is finally generally available, the software giant announced on July 14.

In this case, it supports data transfer speeds of up to one gigabyte per second per node, noted Talius.In addition, Azure SQL Data Warehouse now supports up to 128 concurrent queries, allowing ...

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.

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 ...

As you may remember, Azure SQL Data Warehouse - Microsoft's cloud relational database solution - saw a three-fold increase in compute scale last year. This brought with it unlimited columnar ...

The data streaming specialist (NASDAQ: TLND) said Thursday (Aug. 16) its connector would facilitate the movement of massive data sets to the public data warehouse without the need for shifting source ...

Microsoft’s Azure SQL Data Warehouse, the company’s cloud-based database service for big data workloads, is getting yet another speed bump today. A few months ago, the company sped up the ...

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 ...

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 ...