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 ...

Roughly six months after its unveiling at the Ignite conference last fall, Microsoft took a group of analysts and MVP professionals on a deep dive into the Azure Synapse Analytics service. As noted in ...

Microsoft announced at the end of February 2022 that significant changes are in store across its SQL Server analytics products. To set the context, the broader enterprise IT marketplace was still ...

I've been playing around with the new Microsoft service, currently in preview and it's time to show off what it can do. Have you ever struggled with a database performance problem or ever struggled to ...

Microsoft calls SQL Server 2016 the “biggest leap forward” in the 27-year evolution of the SQL Server database. As we’ll see, despite the excess of hype, the SQL Server 2016 database offers ...

Microsoft today announced an interesting update to its database lineup with the preview of Azure SQL Database Edge, a new tool that brings the same database engine that powers Azure SQL Database in ...

Wednesday, at the Microsoft Ignite conference in Seattle, Microsoft made numerous announcements about data platform solutions. The biggest of those announcements is the new Fabric Analytics ...

The cloud security landscape has evolved dramatically by 2026, with Azure SQL Managed Instance (MI) now operating under a strict Zero-Trust framework that prioritizes data-centric defense over ...

As of May 2026, the Microsoft data ecosystem has evolved beyond simple visualization and reporting. With the introduction of Fabric's 'Data Agents' and Copilot's 'Cowork' autonomous execution ...