Microsoft has announced that both Gen2 of Data Lake Storage and Azure Data Explorer are now generally available. Furthermore, a preview of Mapping Data Flow in Data Factory is also live.

Microsoft is taking Azure Data Explorer (ADX), a hidden gem in its cloud platform, and trotting it out to join the Azure analytics mainstream. Performance gains and numerous integrations should ...

ADX also includes native connectors to Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure SQL Data Warehouse and Power BI and comes with an intuitive query language so that customers can get insights in minutes.

The mssql extension for Visual Studio Code, used to support SQL Server connections and T-SQL editing, has been updated with IntelliCode functionality and a new Object Explorer, among other new ...

Using a connection to Azure Arc, which is part of the SQL Server 2022 setup process, on-premises users can now also opt for cloud-enabled billing to manage consumption spikes or for ad hoc use cases.