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.

When it comes to implementing a big data strategy in a Microsoft SQL Server shop, you're generally going to consider three approaches, one of which is a cloud implementation. SQL Server 2012, and even ...

In an age of NoSQL and Hadoop, original 'Big 3' RDBMS vendor Oracle Corp. is getting back to its roots with a new product designed to integrate access across all three data stores with a single SQL ...

It was called “Big Data – Working with Terabytes in SQL Server” presented by Andrew Novick. As you would expect, the session was packed. The definition of a very large database is a moving ...