Because data warehousing only requires processing power intermittently, SQL Data Warehouse decouples processing costs from storage costs. That can save a lot of money, Microsoft noted.

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 ...

On the compute side, new, larger virtual machine types will allow each node to be powered at up to 18,000 DWUs (data warehouse units -- Microsoft's measurement of DW compute capacity), a tripling ...

Learn More. Microsoft’s elastic cloud data warehousing offering, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, is finally generally available, the software giant announced on July 14.

The new offering's brand, a product of Microsoft's inimitable nomenclature approach, is "Azure SQL Data Warehouse Compute Optimized Gen2 Tier." A great name it ain't, but a good enhancement it is.

Instead of using SQL Server Management Studio to bridge the gap, as used in Azure SQL Database, Microsoft's free SQL Server Data Tools (which can be downloaded here) will be used instead.

This was made possible by integrating data movement capabilities directly into the SQL Server engine, explained Tomas Talius, a Microsoft Azure Data partner architect, in a separate July 12 blog post.

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. Also being announced ...

For now, SQL Data Warehouse is “designed for” data warehouses between 5 and 10TB, Wissner wrote. That way, Microsoft can take in feedback and figure out ways to improve the service.

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 ...