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 ...

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'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, ...

For too many companies, the data warehouse remains an unfulfilled promise. The work that was started with data warehouses to create a living, clearly defined source of truth about what is happening in ...

A fast, no-fuss data warehouse as a service, Snowflake scales dynamically to give you the performance you need exactly when you need it Data warehouses, also called enterprise data warehouses (EDW), ...

Microsoft is moving full steam ahead toward delivering most of its new SQL Server 2008 R2 versions to customer by May. But its high-end SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse isn't going to be out ...

While Microsoft's latest offering, Fabric, is a viable option for many, it's not the only player out there. Last time, you learned about the current state of the art around operational databases on ...

In 2026, the competitive edge isn't where your data sits, but how fast it moves. We compare how the top five platforms are ...

Analytic databases are the principal engines driving business intelligence, delivering operational data into reports, dashboards and ad-hoc queries. Analytic databases are the principal engines ...