Earlier this year, in May, Microsoft introduced a number of new features for its Azure Analytics and database space. As part of these, Azure Data Factory (ADF) also got some new capabilities. For ...

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Microsoft continues to bolster its Azure data services offerings for enterprise users with its announcement that Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 and Azure Data Explorer are now generally available for ...

The goal of Gen2 - beyond ensuring the expected performance improvements - was to make Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) more compatible with the Apache ecosystem. Now, because ADLS is built on top of ...

The company also announced general availability for the Azure Synapse data warehousing and analytics service. Microsoft on Thursday unveiled a “unified data governance service” as part of its Azure ...

Feb. 7, 2019 — In a blog post today, Jurgen Willis (Director of Product Management, Azure Engineering) announced updates to three Azure Data Services. The blog post is included below. [We’re] pleased ...