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 ...

Microsoft fills in the gaps on its Big Data offering with previews of its Azure Data Lake and Language Services, which includes the brand-new U-SQL language for crunching the incoming explosion of ...

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In concert with Arc-enabled Azure SQL's GA, Microsoft is announcing it is working with a broad network of managed service providers (MSPs) and solution integrators (SIs) to help customers deploy and ...

Microsoft has an array of components in its cloud for data management and analysis. There are the obvious ones like Azure SQL Database, Machine Learning and HDInsight; more infrastructural ones, like ...

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Microsoft updated its extension for tying its lightweight Visual Studio Code editor into the Azure cloud for serverless, SQL-based Big Data analytics. Azure Data Lake Tools for Visual Studio Code ...

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 ...