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As you design a table, decide whether the table data belongs in a fact, dimension, or integration table. This decision informs the appropriate table structure and distribution. - **Fact tables** ...

The SQL engine has always been present in the core component of Microsoft’s Data architecture, initially as Azure SQL Data Warehouse and now under the name Azure Synapse Workspace. But in this time ...

A new Azure SQL Data Warehouse preview offered as a counter to Amazon's Redshift headed several data-related announcements at the opening of the Microsoft Build conference today.

> In Azure Synapse Analytics, the IDENTITY value increases on its own in each distribution and does not overlap with IDENTITY values in other distributions. The IDENTITY value in Synapse is not ...

Azure Synapse Analytics merges capabilities of Azure SQL Data Warehouse with new enhancements like on-demand query as a service.

Snowflake in brief Snowflake is a fully relational ANSI SQL data warehouse that was built from the ground up for the cloud.

On the day after Cinco de Mayo, it's Christmas for Azure database pros. Cosmos DB, Azure Database and Azure SQL Data Warehouse all see significant updates.

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.

Forrester Research indicates the market for big data services in the cloud will grow by almost 40 percent annually through 2021. Additionally, a recent Forrester survey found organizations that moved ...