As I described here, Power BI can send SQL queries in parallel in DirectQuery mode and you can see from the Timeline column there is some parallelism happening here – the last two SQL queries ...

Unlock the power of event-driven architecture with AWS's innovative pattern for Amazon RDS SQL Server. This approach decouples database events from processing, enhancing scalability and responsiveness ...

Forget "AI or bust." Microsoft's multiple holds because approximately 70% of Intelligent Cloud growth traces back to boring migrations—high-visibility, low-drama, with AI serving as an accelerant. The ...

Sustainable Growth Advisers (SGA), an investment management company, released its fourth-quarter investor letter for its “U.S. Large Cap Growth Strategy.” A copy of the letter can be downloaded here.

Microsoft has unveiled a new generation of Azure virtual machines (VMs) built on AMD’s 5th Gen EPYC processors, designed for cloud, AI, and high-performance computing. The newly introduced Da/Ea/Fasv7 ...

Microsoft beat consensus on the top and bottom lines, as cloud growth moderated. The company had $37.5 billion in quarterly capital expenditures and finance leases, above Wall Street's $34.3 billion ...

Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and Apple report earnings this week as AI infrastructure costs pressure premium valuations. Trump administration proposed 0.09% Medicare Advantage rate increase versus Wall ...

The focus of this new AI accelerator is inference— the production deployment of AI models in applications. Its architecture combines high compute performance with a newly designed memory system and a ...

Microsoft delivers Q2 fiscal 2026 earnings on January 28 with expectations of $3.91 per share, marking a 21% jump from last year Azure cloud platform drove 40% revenue growth in Q1, powered by AI ...

Abstract: Azure SQL DB offers disaggregated storage architecture called Hyperscale. While this architecture provides storage scale out, it comes at the cost of performance of I/O from remote storage.

Microsoft is moving another core database management component into the cloud, continuing its broader shift away from traditional on-premises infrastructure. According to Neowin, the company has ...