By T. K. “Ranga” Rengarajan, corporate vice president, Data Platform In July of this year, Satya Nadella shared our broad vision for big data and analytics when he announced Cortana Analytics.

“The new Microsoft Azure Data Lake services for analytics in the cloud (bit.ly/1VcCkaH) includes a hyper-scale repository; a new analytics service built on YARN (bit.ly/1iS8xvP) that lets data ...

The new Azure Data Lake service aims to let you get value out of all your data in the cloud, using familiar tools and skills. ... like Azure Data Lake, Azure blob storage and Azure SQL Database.

Azure Data Lake enables you to collect data of any size, type, and velocity in one place in order to explore, analyze, and process the data using tools and languages such as U-SQL, Apache Spark, Hive, ...

Microsoft has just revealed that support for Azure Data Lake Store has been added to its online analytics processing engine, Azure Analysis Services, as well as SQL Server Data Tools.

As of today, Azure Data Lake Gen 2 does not have native support for this kind of backup. Azure Data Factory (ADF) is one of many technical options for a custom backup solution. In this ... He has deep ...

Ignite 2019: Microsoft has revved its Azure SQL Data Warehouse, re-branding it Synapse Analytics, and integrating Apache Spark, Azure Data Lake Storage and Azure Data Factory, with a unified Web ...

The U-SQL query language is frequently mentioned in Microsoft's Azure Data Lake announcements. It may seem new, but Microsoft has been using U-SQL internally since 2008, according to the Channel 9 ...