With Azure Data Factory (ADF) visual tools, we listened to your feedback and enabled a rich, interactive visual authoring and monitoring experience. It allows you to iteratively create, configure, test, deploy and monitor data integration pipelines without any friction. The main goal of the ADF visual tools is to allow you to be productive with […]

Build 2018 Last week, thousands of developers gathered in Seattle for Microsoft Build 2018, Microsoft’s annual developer conference, to learn how we are empowering them to advance the future of society with AI and the intelligent edge. This week's Azure.Source covers a lot of content. For a more concise (TL;DR) summary of Build 2018, check […]

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 […]

On a weekly basis, more than 5 million people find help using Microsoft online help and documentation. Despite having more than 380,000 pages of articles, references, and tutorials, we each have our own stories of painful gaps. Today, we’re introducing a new experiment to help, code-named Aladdin. What is Aladdin? Aladdin is an AI assistant […]

SQL Operations Studio can be leveraged with Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW) to create rich customizable dashboard widgets surfacing insights to your data warehouse. This unlocks key scenarios around managing and tuning your data warehouse to ensure it is optimized for consistent performance. Previously, developers had to manually and continuously execute complex DMV queries […]

We are pleased to announce that Azure SQL Data Warehouse (Azure SQL DW) now supports automatic creation of column level statistics. Azure SQL DW is a fast, flexible, and secure analytics platform for the enterprise. Modern systems such as Azure SQL DW, rely on cost-based optimizers to generate quality execution plans for user queries. Even […]

We are pleased to announce a series of improvements on Application Insights Profiler and Snapshot Debugger. Profiler identifies the line of code that slowed down the web app performance under load. Snapshot Debugger captures runtime exception call stack and local variables to identify the issue in code. To ensure users can easily and conveniently use […]

Creating an advanced conversational system is now a simple task with the powerful tools integrated into Microsoft’s Language Understanding Service (LUIS) and Bot Framework. LUIS brings together cutting-edge speech, machine translation, and text analytics on the most enterprise-ready platform for creation of conversational systems. In addition to these features, LUIS is currently GDPR, HIPPA, and […]

This week is Microsoft Build 2018, our premiere event of the year for our gifted developer audience. With a strong appetite for technology and a desire to learn and immerse themselves in new ways to build and create cloud applications, thousands of software professionals and coders are coming to Seattle this week. We’d like to […]