Azure SQL Data Warehouse previews 3x compute scale with unlimited columnar storage

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The goal for the launch of Azure SQL Data Warehouse was to create a SQL-based, fully managed, petabyte-scale cloud data warehouse that would serve as the platform for analytics at massive scale. By separating compute from the storage customers have been empowered to also create highly elastic solutions. Elastic scale enables customers to provision in minutes, scale in seconds and pause or resume the service on demand affording complete control of compute consumption.

 

Today we are making an exciting announcement. Azure SQL Data Warehouse is increasing its compute scale threefold; raising the compute scale from 6,000 DWU to 18,000 DWU so that customers can run their most compute intensive data warehouse workloads in the cloud. Azure SQL Data Warehouse will also support unlimited columnar storage at these new performance levels.

 

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Read about it on the Azure blog.

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