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, ...

Microsoft's SQL Server 2012 has released to manufacturing. This release of the 20+ year-old database has tie-ins to Hadoop and Big Data analytics in general.

Furthermore, with the new Data Quality Services in SQL Server 2012, customers can enhance their data, by converting raw data to credible and consistent data fit for modelling.

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 ...

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 ...

You have full support for SQL Server services, such as SQL Server Analysis Services, and SQL Server Reporting Service—and can also access HDInsight data using T-SQL and PolyBase, a feature of SQL ...

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 ...

Microsoft sheds some light on its big data strategy, unveiling a trio of products to help customers gain valuable business insight from the mountains of data they're generating.

Remember when SQL developers felt threatened by Big Data? Relational database management systems were old-school relics that couldn't cope with the vast amounts of unstructured, disparate data. NoSQL ...

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 introduced the public preview of SQL Server 2019 on Monday at the start of the 2018 Ignite conference. While the big news is around SQL Server Big Data clusters, there are a number of ...