Data professionals

Data is at the heart of Microsoft’s cloud services, such as Bing, Office, Skype, and many more.

We are excited to announce that SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW) now supports user-defined restore points! This feature enables you to trigger a manual snapshot of your data warehouse that is transactionally consistent.

Last year, we released Blob-Level Tiering. It enables you to transition blobs between the Hot, Cool, and Archive tiers without moving data between accounts.

Hello SIGMOD attendees! Welcome to Houston, and to what is shaping up to be a great conference.

Processing big data in real-time is now an operational necessity for many businesses. Azure Stream Analytics is Microsoft’s serverless real-time analytics offering for complex event processing.

Azure Data Lake Analytics (ADLA) is a serverless PaaS service in Azure to prepare and transform large amounts of data stored in Azure Data Lake Store or Azure Blob Storage at unparalleled scale.

Compliance is an important factor for customers when looking at software and services as they look to meet their own compliance obligations across regulated industries and markets worldwide.

Enterprises have been embarking on a journey of digital transformation for many years.

Azure Data Lake Analytics combines declarative and imperative concepts in the form of a new language called U-SQL. The idea of learning a new language is daunting. Don’t worry! U-SQL is easy to learn.

There is a massive opportunity in machine learning and artificial intelligence, that is powered by both intelligent cloud and intelligent edge.

At Microsoft Build 2018, the Microsoft Speech Services team announced the following new and improved products and services.

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