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 ...

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 ...

PolyBase was introduced with PDW in 2013 to integrate data stored in the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) with SQL Server, one of many emerging SQL-on-Hadoop solutions. "SQL Data Warehouse can ...

Functionally, Azure Synapse Analytics starts by combining Azure Data Factory with Azure SQL Data Warehouse – the former is still available as a standalone service, while Azure Synapse supersedes ...

Enterprises can use the new offering in conjunction with other Microsoft data tools such as PowerBI, Azure Machine Learning, Azure HDInsight and Azure Data Factory. Speaking of other data offerings, ...

Microsoft also highlights Synapse’s integration with Power BI, its easy to use business intelligence and reporting tool, as well as Azure Machine Learning for building models.

The preview Mapping Data Flow capabilities in Azure Data Factory (ADF) allow customers to visually design, build and manage data transformation processes without learning Spark or having a deep ...

The Integration Runtime (IR) compute infrastructure is used by Azure Synapse and Azure Data Factory pipelines to provide data integration capabilities across network environments (e.g., data flow ...