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 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.

Microsoft's drive to put Azure SQL Data Warehouse on more equal footing with SQL Server is finally paying off. Azure SQL Data Warehouse gets less press than its online transaction processing ...

Microsoft triples available compute units, adds SSD-based cache to its cloud data warehouse service Written by Andrew Brust, Contributor July 10, 2017, 6:00 a.m. PT ...

Along those lines, Tiffany Wissner, senior director of Microsoft’s Data Platform division, asserted in a June 24 SQL Server Blog post that “because Azure SQL Data Warehouse independently ...

Microsoft has enhanced Azure SQL Data Warehouse to provide what the company is claiming is at least double the query performance. Jason Zander, executive vice president of Microsoft Azure, credits ...

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 ...

Billed as a database-as-a-service offering, Azure SQL Data Warehouse is Microsoft's enterprise-focused storage solution that scales both computing power and storage space based on need. According to ...

Microsoft is responding to the “Big Data” movement by adding support for the open-source Hadoop framework for large-scale data processing to its SQL Server database and Parallel Data Warehouse ...

The Azure SQL Data Warehouse allows users to store data at cloud-scale, and compute is scaled independently. Users can use the familiarity of T-SQL to easily query across relational and non-relational ...