Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure SQL Data Warehouse, a data-analysis service that many companies are likely to find important.

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.

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 ...

Microsoft and its hardware partners on Monday rolled out preconfigured data warehouse reference architectures that incorporate Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

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 ...

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 ...

Snowflake in brief Snowflake is a fully relational ANSI SQL data warehouse that was built from the ground up for the cloud.

Microsoft is moving full steam ahead toward delivering most of its new SQL Server 2008 R2 versions to customer by May. But its high-end SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse isn't going to be ...

If you’re in the market for a SQL-on-Hadoop solution, you have many options to consider. And now that Kognitio has adapted its proven massively parallel processing (MPP) in-memory SQL database to run ...

Cloud-native Snowflake seeks to overcome the challenges of previous generations of data warehouse technology and embrace big data. How is its approach unique?