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 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.

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 ...

The existing data warehouse was left in situ and using Sybase ASE with Sybase IQ permitted the users to access both data sets from a single unified interface. The aggregate load, held in the existing ...

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 ...