Gaining insights rapidly from data is critical to competitiveness in today’s business world. Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW), Microsoft’s fully managed analytics platform, leverages Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) to run complex interactive SQL queries at every level of scale.
An enterprise data warehouse doesn’t exist in isolation but is part of a complete analytics solution that includes the ‘pipelines’ that extract, transform, and load data, often from many disparate sources, as well as staging and reporting layers. Tasks such as continuous integration and continuous delivery require extensive manual coding and doesn't offer the flexibility needed for the rapidly changing business needs. This is where data warehouse automation tools provide value for customers.
Read about it in the Azure blog.