Microsoft’s Azure SQL Data Warehouse, the company’s cloud-based database service for big data workloads, is getting yet another speed bump today. A few months ago, the company sped up the service with ...

Microsoft yesterday announced major enhancements to its cloud data warehouse offering. Microsoft Corporate Vice President for Azure Data, Rohan Kumar, gave me the skinny in a private briefing in New ...

One way that organizations are storing data in the cloud is by moving their databases to the cloud. What once meant building an entire physical server, patching it, installing software like Microsoft ...

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. At its ...

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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It was barely a month ago that Microsoft announced the general availability of SQL Server 2017 after having released the product in preview and release candidate forms earlier in the year. Today, at ...

As a consultant whose job description includes putting out performance fires, I get to see a lot of problematic queries that can dramatically harm overall server performance and throughput. Wondering ...