AI and data analytics company Databricks today announced the launch of SQL Analytics, a new service that makes it easier for data analysts to run their standard SQL queries directly on data lakes. And ...

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 ...

In the vast universe of IT, data is categorized as being either structured or unstructured, from a macro perspective. Generation of unstructured data is orders of magnitude higher than that generated ...

Microsoft announced at the end of February 2022 that significant changes are in store across its SQL Server analytics products. To set the context, the broader enterprise IT marketplace was still ...

Dive into data lakes—what they are, how they're used, and how data lakes are both different and complementary to data warehouses. In 2011, James Dixon, then CTO of the business intelligence company ...

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Prophecy, the low-code data transformation platform, has announced the release of Prophecy 3.0, expanding beyond low-code Spark for data engineers to provide ...

Every day, businesses depend on data to operate. Customer orders, quotes for new business, conversations around products, campaigns for marketing—pretty much every business process today is based on ...