Optimise performance by upgrading SQL Data Warehouse
Published date: 09 April, 2018
With the latest feature release, you can seamlessly upgrade from the Optimised for Elasticity tier to the new Optimised for Compute performance tier with a simple click in the Azure portal.
The Optimized for Compute performance tier offers the latest platform capabilities, providing an enhanced storage architecture that has shown an average five-times increase in performance for query workloads. On this new tier, Azure SQL Data Warehouse now supports unlimited columnar storage with a five-times increase in compute scalability.
For more information, see the documentation on how to upgrade.