The SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse initiative is Microsoft's latest push into the market for data warehouse systems that can handle tens, and even hundreds, of terabytes of data. Sometime in the ...
PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...
SQL DW is doing very well for Microsoft, not just in revenue terms, but also in terms of hearts and minds. Through upgrades to its storage model and query optimization facilities, SQL DW has gone from ...