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.

Azure SQL Data Warehouse service is now available across all 33 Microsoft Azure regions. The expansion happened this week with the "general availability" rollout of Azure SQL Data Warehouse ...

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 ...

Ignite 2019: Microsoft has revved its Azure SQL Data Warehouse, re-branding it Synapse Analytics, and integrating Apache Spark, Azure Data Lake Storage and Azure Data Factory, with a unified Web ...

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 ...

For now, SQL Data Warehouse is “designed for” data warehouses between 5 and 10TB, Wissner wrote. That way, Microsoft can take in feedback and figure out ways to improve the service.

By default, Azure Monitor retains data warehouse metrics for 90 days. Azure SQL Data Warehouse also features tighter integration with Azure Analysis Services, a cloud-based analytics engine.

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.

On the compute side, new, larger virtual machine types will allow each node to be powered at up to 18,000 DWUs (data warehouse units -- Microsoft's measurement of DW compute capacity), a tripling ...

Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure SQL Data Warehouse, a data-analysis service that many companies are likely to find important. Azure is the last of the three major cloud ...