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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 ...

Microsoft is making a slew of Azure data announcements today, on both the data lake and data warehouse fronts. First, Microsoft's Azure Data Explorer (ADX) product is being released into general ...

Microsoft today announced Azure Data Lake, a new data repository for big data analytics workloads, during its Build developer conference keynote. The idea behind Data Lake is — as the name implies — ...

Microsoft updated its Visual Studio Code extension for working with the Azure Data Lake for Big Data analytics in the cloud, furthering integration of the extension's data exploration tool among other ...

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 ...