This document discusses Microsoft's data warehousing and analytics solutions including SQL Server, Microsoft Analytics Platform System (APS), and Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQLDW). It provides information on the capabilities and scalability of each solution, noting that SQL Server is ideal for small to medium sized datamarts, APS is for large on-premise data warehouses from 10s of TB to petabytes in size, and SQLDW is for scalable cloud data warehousing from 10s of TB to petabytes. Various topics are summarized around loading data into SQLDW using BCP, SSIS, and PolyBase as well as tuning SQLDW performance.