Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the performance of ISV application code. Here's how it works.

Microsoft's drive to put Azure SQL Data Warehouse on more equal footing with SQL Server is finally paying off.

Liftr Insights, a pioneer in market intelligence driven by unique data, demonstrated how much further ahead Azure is compared to other major providers for certain workloads.

Learn More. Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Microsoft’s elastic, cloud-based data warehousing offering for big data workloads, is now offering its customers more detailed performance insights.

If you’re using one of the Azure data­bases, you can take advantage of Query Performance Insight for many additional visualizations about the overall resource con­sumption of your Azure databases.

Microsoft recently announced the public preview of Azure SQL Database External REST Endpoint Integration – an ability to call a REST endpoint natively from Azure SQL Database.

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 ...

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Microsoft's latest cloud data warehouse release retains its decoupled compute-storage advantage, while crafting parity with Amazon Redshift's local storage performance.