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 brethren, ...

In the Azure cloud, it often takes advantage of services such as Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Analysis Services, and ...

Azure Synapse Analytics is the result of a lot of work, and a little trial and error. At first, Ramakrishnan said, the team developed high–level guidelines showing ...

At its annual Ignite conference in Orlando, Fla., Microsoft today announced a major new Azure service for enterprises: Azure Synapse Analytics, which Microsoft describes as “the next evolution of ...

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. As you ...

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Microsoft launched its flagship data product, Azure Synapse Analytics, in 2020, and as the product matured, intense interest has grown from both large South African corporates as well as smaller ...

Microsoft Build (stylized as "//build/") – Redmond's annual developer-focused conference – kicks off today in Seattle. There's tons of news coming out of this event; my ZDNet colleagues Mary Jo Foley ...

Microsoft launched its Azure Database for MySQL and PostgreSQL services to general availability (GA) in 2018. When those services began their preview the year before, the notion that Microsoft itself ...