Microsoft announces general availability of Azure SQL Data Warehouse

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Microsoft today announced the general availability of the Azure SQL Data Warehouse, an elastic data warehouse as a service with enterprise-class features. It is a fully managed DW as a Service that you can provision in minutes and scale up to 60 times larger in seconds. With Azure SQL Data Warehouse, storage and compute scale independently. You can dynamically deploy, grow, shrink, and even pause compute, taking advantage of best-in-class price/performance. Also, SQL Data Warehouse uses the power and familiarity of T-SQL to let you easily integrate query results across relational data in your data warehouse and non-relational data in Azure blob storage. SQL Data Warehouse offers an availability SLA of 99.9%, the only public cloud data warehouse service that offers an availability SLA to customers.

Azure SQL Data Warehouse uses an elastic massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture built on top of the industry-leading SQL Server 2016 database engine. It allows you to interactively query and analyze data using the broad set of existing SQL-based tools and business intelligence applications that you use today. It uses column stores for high performance analytics and storage compression, a rich collection of aggregation capabilities of SQL Server, and state of the art query optimization capabilities. With built-in capabilities such as Polybase, it allows you to query Hadoop systems directly, enabling a single SQL-based query surface for all your data.

Read about all the features of Azure SQL Data Warehouse here.

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