Instead of using SQL Server Management Studio to bridge the gap, as used in Azure SQL Database, Microsoft's free SQL Server Data Tools (which can be downloaded here) will be used instead.

Azure SQL Data Warehouse was built on a similar elastic massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture that is found in its SQL Server 2016 database to provide column stores for storage ...

The Madison technology came to be known as SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) and is now known as Analytics Platform System (APS). The product was not exactly a smash hit.

The Azure SQL Data Warehouse, which will go into public preview in June, ... As the name implies, the query language for the service is SQL (specifically Microsoft SQL Server’s Transact-SQL), ...

The company announced the Datacenter edition of the server, for scaling up online transaction processing, and the Parallel Data Warehouse version, which can support hundreds of terabytes of data ...

Microsoft is responding to the “Big Data” movement by adding support for the open-source Hadoop framework for large-scale data processing to its SQL Server database and Parallel Data Warehouse ...

This week Microsoft announced the first step in its Project Madison strategy by releasing reference architectures through its SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse. Hardware vendors HP, Dell and ...

Microsoft has said it is set to deliver most of its new SQL Server 2008 R2 versions to customer by May, but its high-end SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse will not be released in the first ...

After just two months, a new software tool enabled Aventis Pharmaceuticals Inc. to discover a promising candidate for a new drug to treat asthma, arthritis or even perhaps cancer; it’s a ...