Microsoft's drive to put Azure SQL Data Warehouse on more equal footing with SQL Server is finally paying off.

Fresh from last week's Build developer conference in San Francisco, Microsoft executives appeared at the company's first-ever Ignite conference in Chicago and provided more details about the company's ...

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, is ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The first generation of Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW) was announced in 2015, and SQL DW "Gen 2" reached general availability in 2018. Today, at its Ignite confab on Orlando, Microsoft is ...

Microsoft's latest cloud data warehouse release retains its decoupled compute-storage advantage, while crafting parity with Amazon Redshift's local storage performance.

Where Synapse differs from other data warehouse products is its roots in Azure SQL’s hyperscale option. Instead of a single compute node handling all your queries, it uses a cluster of what ...