Azure SQL Data Warehouse gets less press than its online transaction processing brethren, Azure SQL Database and Azure Cosmos DB. However, it is a powerful cloud engine for processing large ...

Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the performance of ISV application code. Here's how it works.

To query any SQL database from PowerShell, you need to have the SQLPS module installed along with a few supporting packages. I am going to be focusing on the SQL Server 2012 packages in this article.

Microsoft has announced a private preview of Copilot for SQL Azure, which offers a natural language for SQL conversion and self-help for database administration.

Azure SQL database To start, log in to Microsoft Azure using your administrative credentials. From the Home or Dashboard screen, click the Create a resource (+) link.

Microsoft today announced a new service in its Azure database lineup during its Build developer conference keynote today. The Azure SQL Data Warehouse, which will go into public preview in June ...

“The new Microsoft Azure Data Lake services for analytics in the cloud (bit.ly/1VcCkaH) includes a hyper-scale repository; a new analytics service built on YARN (bit.ly/1iS8xvP) that lets data ...

Azure Synapse Overview. Azure Synapse, previously known as Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse, integrates big data and data warehousing into a single platform.. Its architecture is built on a ...

Microsoft recently announced the public preview of Azure SQL Database External REST Endpoint Integration – an ability to call a REST endpoint natively from Azure SQL Database.

SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database both give you tables that automatically keep track of the history of your data. Here's how to retrieve that historical data. Home; News; ... This query, using ...