Today we made Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW) Compute Optimized Gen2 Tier generally available to our customers. Even though data and data sources grow exponentially, organizations continue to demand faster and faster insights. Azure SQL DW Compute Optimized Gen2 tier delivers on this need with major performance improvements made possible through adaptive caching.
Analytics workload performance is typically determined by two major factors, I/O bandwidth to storage and repartitioning speed, also known as shuffle speed. This blog post looks under the hood of how Azure SQL DW exploits the latest hardware trends to improve effective I/O bandwidth available.
Read about it in the Azure blog.