New optimizations mean that users will get the results of the database queries and big data analytics workloads faster on systems that support more users.

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.

With its move to Microsoft Azure, Snowflake becomes one of the few multi-cloud data warehouses in the market. Apart from competing with traditional, on-premises data warehouse vendors, it’s ...

Lack of consistency: Companies may often find it difficult to keep their data lake and data warehouse architecture consistent. It is not just a costly affair, but teams also need to employ ...