We recently looked at the idea of the data lake, so now it’s time to head downstream and look at data warehouses. We’ll define data warehouses, look at the data types they comprise, the storage they ...

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 ...

Fresh from last week's Build developer conference in San Francisco, Microsoft executives appeared at the company's first-ever Ignite conference in Chicago and provided more details about the company's ...

It's been a big few weeks for database and analytics news on the Microsoft Azure cloud. On June 27th, Microsoft had various announcements regarding Azure data storage and data integration. And, just ...

SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and querying ...

Dive into data lakes—what they are, how they're used, and how data lakes are both different and complementary to data warehouses. In 2011, James Dixon, then CTO of the business intelligence company ...