A data warehouse is a big database that uses large stores of transactional data to analyze the business and support decisions. A company can use a data warehouse, for instance, to help segment the ...

Let's kick off 2024 by checking in with the current status of some of Microsoft's more popular database options, like Azure SQL Database, Azure Managed Instance and more.

Microsoft's portfolio of PaaS databases has grown way beyond Azure SQL. Here are its most important cloud-based database services, and exactly how each one works differently from the other.

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 ...

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 ...

Attunity CloudBeam for Azure SQL Data Warehouse, a new cloud solution from Attunity, enables automated and optimized data loading from enterprise databases into the Azure SQL Data Warehouse. The new ...

There once was no alternative to building a data warehouse on-premise, but with cloud providers targeting analytics, building data warehouses on-site is looking obsolete.

At its annual Inspire conference this year, Microsoft announced a 3x increase in compute scale as well as unlimited columnar support for the firm's massive parallel processing cloud offering.

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

The company switches on the security-enhancing feature, providing administrators with more visibility into their cloud database operations.