Promising that developers can "save weeks of development effort," Microsoft today answered their request for database project support in Visual Studio to target Azure SQL Data Warehouse projects.

Microsoft and its hardware partners on Monday rolled out preconfigured data warehouse reference architectures that incorporate Microsoft SQL Server 2008. By Kurt Mackie 02/23/2009 ...

This week Microsoft announced the first step in its Project Madison strategy by releasing reference architectures through its SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse. Hardware vendors HP, Dell and ...

A new Azure SQL Data Warehouse preview offered as a counter to Amazon's Redshift headed several data-related announcements at the opening of the Microsoft Build conference today. Also being announced ...

Microsoft is responding to the "Big Data" movement by adding support for the open source Hadoop framework for large-scale data processing to its SQL Server database and Parallel Data Warehouse ...

Microsoft and its hardware partners on Monday rolled out preconfigured data warehouse reference architectures that incorporate Microsoft SQL Server 2008. The new offerings are part of a "SQL ...

The new offerings are part of a "SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse" program and feature hardware server products from Bull, Dell and HP. The solutions promise scalability for enterprise data ...

He estimated that Oracle Database, IBM DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server are used in about one third of data warehousing apps. Two thirds of those deployments are for transactional apps, such as "OLTP, ERP ...