An ETL tool extracts, transforms, and loads data. SQL Server Integration Service (SSIS) is an on-premises ETL technology intended for use in on-premises applications. Azure Data Factory is a data ...

Whether you're shifting ETL workloads to the cloud or visually building data transformation pipelines, version 2 of Azure Data Factory lets you leverage conventional and open source technologies to ...

After weeks without many database updates, Microsoft ramped up its database announcements as it reached the middle of September. Principal software engineer Hans Olav Norheim went over hot patching ...

In the past, businesses collected and integrated data using tools that they set up and managed themselves. Today organizations can build data integration pipelines -- hosted, fully managed data ...

Get ready to scale out SQL Azure databases beyond today's 50GB limit with the Transact-SQL and ADO.NET elastic sharding features, which are coming in the 2011 SQL Azure Federation Community Technology ...