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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 ...

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 ...

The goal of Gen2 - beyond ensuring the expected performance improvements - was to make Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) more compatible with the Apache ecosystem. Now, because ADLS is built on top of ...

Microsoft is ramping up its Azure public cloud in its effort to gnaw away at the hindquarters of Amazon Web Services, which it trails in the ongoing drive to herd enterprise computing into the cloud.

Okera, which offers a centralized security, governance and access solution for data lakes and data warehouses, has announced support for data lakes on the Microsoft Azure cloud. While Amazon Web ...

Microsoft decreased its SQL Azure pricing again, and added a new 100 MB database storage option. The 100 MB storage plan offers a new option for customers getting started on SQL Azure, while the new ...