The biggest feature in the SQL Server 2019 preview launched at Ignite is SQL Server Big Data clusters. Travis Wright, Microsoft's principal program manager for SQL Server, explains exactly what this ...

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While Larry Ellison was in the counting house counting all his money (or trophy homes), Microsoft engineers were hard at work spending thousands of hours building SQL Server 2014. The new platform ...

Nodes can run as SQL compute nodes, SQL storage nodes or HDFS data nodes. In the HDFS case, SQL Server and Apache Spark run co-located, in the same container. All of this interoperability is enabled ...

StreamSets, provider of a DataOps platform, is supporting and integrating its platform for Microsoft’s recently announced SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters. With this integration, SQL users are ...

Microsoft introduced a preview of the latest edition of its flagship RDBMS, SQL Server 2019, highlighting new Big Data capabilities. The company said v2019 creates a unified data platform by packaging ...

In modern manufacturing, data has become just as critical as raw materials and skilled labor. From machine sensors and production lines to supply chain and qual ...

Microsoft on Monday revealed that hospitals and other IT shops should expect the next generation of its database to be available on June 1. Dubbed SQL Server 2016, the forthcoming iteration brings a ...

Last week, Microsoft unveiled the first release candidate refresh for SQL Server 2019, with Big Data Clusters being the primary focus of the announcement. This capability allows for the deployment of ...

The death of SQL has been greatly exaggerated. With all apologies to Mark Twain, the demise of Structured Query Language (SQL), having been forecasted for a while, is far from a done deal. In fact, ...

SQL Server 2008 R2, which ships this month, allows end users to tap into the powerful business intelligence features of SQL Server via tight integration with popular Microsoft applications like Excel.