Microsoft's drive to put Azure SQL Data Warehouse on more equal footing with SQL Server is finally paying off. Azure SQL Data Warehouse gets less press than its online transaction processing brethren, ...

This week Microsoft announced the first step in its Project Madison strategy by releasing reference architectures through its SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse. Hardware vendors HP, Dell and Bull ...

Microsoft is responding to the “Big Data” movement by adding support for the open-source Hadoop framework for large-scale data processing to its SQL Server database and Parallel Data Warehouse ...

Promising that developers can "save weeks of development effort," Microsoft today answered their request for database project support in Visual Studio to target Azure SQL Data Warehouse projects.