As you will see in this chapter, companies use SQL Server for many types of applications and on most tiers now. Gone are the days when you would second guess yourself choosing to use SQL Server over a ...

Microsoft today announced a new service in its Azure database lineup during its Build developer conference keynote today. The Azure SQL Data Warehouse, which will go into public preview in June, is ...

Fresh from last week's Build developer conference in San Francisco, Microsoft executives appeared at the company's first-ever Ignite conference in Chicago and provided more details about the company's ...

The "data" part of the terms "data lake," "data warehouse," and "database" is easy enough to understand. Data are everywhere, and the bits need to be kept somewhere. But should they be stored in a ...

For too many companies, the data warehouse remains an unfulfilled promise. The work that was started with data warehouses to create a living, clearly defined source of truth about what is happening in ...

Many organizations nowadays are struggling with finding the appropriate data stores for their data. Let’s zoom in on some key data structures to facilitate corporate decision making by means of ...