Pairing your on-prem SQL Server with a cloud-based instance for high availability has its challenges, but they can be overcome. Here’s how. The geographic distribution of cloud data centers ...

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.

This week Microsoft announced the first step in its Project Madison strategy by releasing reference architectures through its SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse. Hardware vendors HP, Dell and ...

The new offerings are part of a "SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse" program and feature hardware server products from Bull, Dell, and HP. The solutions promise scalability for enterprise data ...

The first step is to embarking on a data warehouse building project is to ask the pertinent questions. Asking the right questions, however, is not as straightforward as it sounds.

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 ...

NEW DELHI: Microsoft Corporation India on Thursday said HDFC Bank has created a data warehouse using Microsoft''s SQL Server 2000 and Windows 2000 Advanced server with i-Flex''s Reveleus.

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 ...

The same goes for SQL Server, especially the forthcoming SQL Server 2025. Incorporating these into your solution with .NET Aspire doesn't require cryptic or brittle steps. Instead, you can spin up the ...

A key book on data warehousing is W. H. Inmon's Building the Data Warehouse, a practical guide that was first published in 1990 and has been reprinted several times.