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 ...

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Microsoft today introduced the launch of Azure Data Lake Analytics, a new cloud-based service for running queries on big data stored in the Microsoft’s growing public cloud. It uses a new ...

Microsoft's Azure platform looks like, at first glance, a bewildering array of services and features, many of which have been recently updated including Azure Stream Analytics, SQL Database, Container ...

Microsoft today released SQL Server 2022, the latest version of its database software, which originally launched more than 33 years ago. Microsoft describes this release as the “most Azure-enabled ...

Company continues its big data push with a smorgasbord of data-related announcements at the Professional Association for SQL Server Summit Microsoft unwrapped a smorgasbord of data-related offerings ...

Microsoft today announced new Azure data, analytics, and server features and updates at Ignite, its annual enterprise-focused developer conference. Among other developments, Azure Container Apps is ...