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 ...

Azure Data Lake and Stream Analytics Tools for Visual Studio (version 2.4), which is a plugin for local U-SQL and Azure Data Lake development. Once you install this, relevant Azure Data Lake Analytics ...

Back in mid-March, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Databricks, which has now gotten a series of additions. However, before diving straight into said announcements, a bit of ...

Microsoft this week released Azure Data Lake as a generally available (GA), production-ready service, backed by Microsoft's 99.9 percent service-level agreement. Azure Data Lake is a service for "Big ...

The goal of Gen2 - beyond ensuring the expected performance improvements - was to make Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) more compatible with the Apache ecosystem. Now, because ADLS is built on top of ...

There's a new buzzword on the loose, the "data lake." At first glance, a data lake could be easily mistaken for a data warehouse. The two big data concepts have a common focus on analytics and they ...