In Azure SQL Data Warehouse, fact tables are distributed across nodes using a hash column, while smaller dimensions are replicated to all nodes and larger dimensions use the same hash distribution.

The aim of Azure SQL Database Hyperscale is to create a service that supports databases of up to 100TB and beyond. To meet those goals, Microsoft had to take a ground-breaking approach to scaling ...

From immutable ledgers in SQL Azure to in-memory cache in Cosmos DB, Microsoft is adding more features to its Azure data platform. If you’re building cloud-native applications you need a ...

Microsoft today announced a new service in its Azure database lineup during its Build developer conference keynote today. The Azure SQL Data Warehouse, which will go into public preview in June ...

Again parroting the Build message, Wissner also discussed Azure SQL Data Warehouse's ability to separate compute and storage services, scaling them independently up and down immediately as needed.

A new Azure SQL Data Warehouse preview offered as a counter to Amazon's Redshift headed several data-related announcements at the opening of the Microsoft Build conference today. Also being announced ...

Small businesses can create and access an SQL database of their creation for as little as $4.99/month. This tutorial shows you how to use the Azure Portal to create a cloud-based SQL database with ...

As you may remember, Azure SQL Data Warehouse - Microsoft's cloud relational database solution - saw a three-fold increase in compute scale last year. This brought with it unlimited columnar ...

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 ...

Later this month [July], customers will be able to provision new preview instances of Azure SQL Data Warehouse at DW9000 and DW18000 through the Azure portal.