The first generation of Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW) was announced in 2015, and SQL DW "Gen 2" reached general availability in 2018. Today, at its Ignite confab on Orlando, Microsoft is ...

At its annual Ignite conference in Orlando, Fla., Microsoft today announced a major new Azure service for enterprises: Azure Synapse Analytics, which Microsoft describes as “the next evolution of ...

Azure Synapse Analytics was first revealed by Microsoft in November 2019, at its Ignite conference in Orlando, back when we still had live events. With just a few months to go until its first birthday ...

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Workflow automation was a predictable focus as Microsoft Ignite kicked off in Orlando, Florida this morning. To this end, the company took the wraps off new cloud-hosted AI, data analytics, and ...

With regards to Azure analytics, new features to report at Microsoft's Build 2020 conference include an HTAP implementation dubbed Synapse Link for Cosmos DB, along with general Synapse improvements.

Microsoft on Thursday announced the preview release of Azure Purview, a new data governance solution, as well as the "general availability" commercial release of Azure Synapse Analytics and Azure ...

I’ve been working with Microsoft business intelligence products since their official inclusion in the product line back in the days of SQL Server 7, around 1998. From that time forward, the business ...