ICYMI: Data platform momentum
The last couple months have seen the addition of several new products that extend Microsoft’s data platform offerings.
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Architecture of the Microsoft Analytics Platform System
In today’s world of interconnected devices and broad access to more and more data, the ability to glean ambient insight from the variety of data sources has been made quite hard by the variety and speed with which data is being delivered. -
Real world use cases of the Microsoft Analytics Platform System
This blog post was authored by: Murshed Zaman, AzureCAT PM and Sumin Mohanan, DS SDET With the advent of SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse (the MPP version of SQL Server) V2 AU1 (Appliance Update 1), PDW got a new name: the Analytics Platform System [Appliance] or APS. -
New Optimized OLTP and Data Warehousing SQL Server Images on Azure
Microsoft Azure continues to offer customers more reasons why Azure Virtual Machines are an ideal place to develop, test and run your SQL Server applications. -
APS Best Practice: How to Optimize Query Performance by Minimizing Data Movement
by Rob Farley, LobsterPot Solutions The Analytics Platform System, with its MPP SQL Server engine (SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse) can deliver performance and scalability for analytics workloads that you may not have expected from SQL Server. -
Explore In-Memory Technologies at Ignite
You’ve probably already heard why you should use the in-memory tech built into Microsoft SQL Server: 30 times faster transaction speed, 100 times the query speed, and millions of rows of data analyzed every second. -
Top reasons why enterprises should choose Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Guest post by Tiffany Wissner, Senior Director, Data Platform Yesterday at Microsoft’s Ignite conference, we demoed the first sneak peek of Azure SQL Data Warehouse. -
Azure SQL Data Warehouse opens for Limited Public Preview
By Tiffany Wissner, Senior Director, Data Platform At the Build conference in April, we announced Azure SQL Data Warehouse, our new enterprise-class elastic data warehouse-as-a-service. -
Analytics Platform System Update 4 Generally Available
Matt Usher, Senior Program Manager, DS SQL Engineering We are pleased to announce the general availability of Appliance Update 4 for the Microsoft Analytics Platform System. -
Real-Time Operational Analytics Using In-Memory Technology
Operational workloads refer to the business transactions that are critical to running a business. -
The elastic future of data warehousing
This post was authored by Joseph Sirosh, Corporate Vice President, Data Group. -
Eight scenarios with Apache Spark on Azure that will transform any business
This post was authored by Rimma Nehme, Technical Assistant, Data Group.
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