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 has unveiled a preview of a C++-based vectorized query engine for the Azure Databricks cloud analytics and AI service based on Apache Spark. Azure Databricks, which is delivered in ...

Who needs rewrites? This metadata-powered architecture fuses AI and ETL so smoothly, it turns pipelines into self-evolving engines of insight. In the fast-evolving landscape of enterprise data ...

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 ...

I’ve been working with Microsoft business intelligence products since their official inclusion in the product line back in the days of SQL Server 7, around 1998. From that time forward, the business ...

Databricks today launched what it calls its Lakehouse Federation feature at its Data + AI Summit. Using this new capability, enterprises can bring together their various siloed data systems and ...