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 this week released Azure Data Lake as a generally available (GA), production-ready service, backed by Microsoft's 99.9 percent service-level agreement. Azure Data Lake is a service for "Big ...

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 ...

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