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.

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 ...

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 ...

At its Inspire partner conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft announces big performance enhancements to its cloud data warehouse and new Enterprise/Big Data capabilities for Power BI.

Microsoft has updated its Azure SQL Data Warehouse service with several key new features including Azure Active Directory authentication.

It also has a "Table Distribution" feature for addressing workload performance issues. Microsoft added a "Tempdb" feature to Azure Advisor so that IT pros can "understand when to scale and configure ...

The company switches on the security-enhancing feature, providing administrators with more visibility into their cloud database operations.

At its annual Inspire conference this year, Microsoft announced a 3x increase in compute scale as well as unlimited columnar support for the firm's massive parallel processing cloud offering.

IBM has announced the general availability of the Db2 Warehouse SaaS on Azure, using the Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) model.

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 ...