In short, SQL DW Gen 2 offers the ability to cache data to NVMe SSDs. But the real innovation here that the durable storage layer is still Azure Storage Blobs.

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 ...

Microsoft has released the September update for Azure Data Studio, bringing SQL Server command line mode in the Query Editor, Notebook improvements, the Query Editor Boost extension, and more.

Cloud data warehouse solutions like Google BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift and Azure SQL/DW are cloud hosted data warehouses based on modern architectures that do away with the traditional ...

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.