When it comes to implementing a big data strategy in a Microsoft SQL Server shop, you’re generally going to consider one of three strategies. In the first strategy, which I won’t be addressing today, ...

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 ...

Full disclosure: I am a co-author of an upcoming book on SQL Server 2012, and I do a lot of work with Microsoft. Why would a new version of SQL Server be a big deal for this blog? As a mainstream ...

Microsoft brought its big data strategy into sharper focus Tuesday, unveiling a trio of products that it says will help customers gain valuable business insight from the mountains of data they're ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The SQL Server relational engine matured a long time ago. There have been advances, of course, in performance, fault tolerance and high availability, not mention encryption, compression and ...

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, ...

Microsoft announced the latest preview of its next-gen SQL Server product at Ignite. Here's a rundown of everything the new release promises, from performance enhancements to security and availability ...

In my last article, I told you a bit about Microsoft’s overall big data strategy in SQL Server 2014 (which has just become available to customers) with a deep dive ...