What Microsoft has done here is to provide three major hardware vendors with tried-and-tested specifications that can be purchased with SQL Server 2008 to support large database implementations ...

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 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.

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 ...

Melissa has a variety of tools available to clean, validate and enhance the Contact dimension in your SQL Server data warehouse. Specifically, Melissa's suite of SSIS Data Quality Components can be ...

Microsoft has made considerable progress in the data warehouse market in competition with IBM and Oracle, according to James Kobielus, senior analyst at Forrester Research and author of "Forrester ...

Microsoft and its hardware partners on Monday rolled out preconfigured data warehouse reference architectures that incorporate Microsoft SQL Server 2008.