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 ...

Roughly six months after its unveiling at the Ignite conference last fall, Microsoft took a group of analysts and MVP professionals on a deep dive into the Azure Synapse Analytics service. As noted in ...

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 ...

When Microsoft unveiled Azure Synapse Analytics a year ago, the company promised to put data and the power of analytics at people’s fingertips – anywhere in an organization – while freeing up skilled ...

The use of technology for improved automation and security data access is being hailed as key to a successful cloud migration at a major Scandinavian bank. Integration with Databricks and Microsoft ...

Connecting Microsoft Dataverse to a lakehouse architecture like Microsoft Fabric or Azure Synapse enables unified data access, real-time analytics, and AI-ready datasets. By leveraging virtual tables, ...