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 ...

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.

Ignite, Microsoft's annual IT Pro and Developer confab kicks off today, with a slew of news in the data, analytics and AI areas of the company's stack, both in-cloud and on-premises.

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 ...

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 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.

The widely used Structured Query Language is gaining new life as a standard data access method for Big Data.

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 ...

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.

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.

SQL Server 2019 functionality is provided by the SQL Server 2019 extension, which includes support for SQL Server Big Data clusters. That feature lets data developers deploy scalable clusters of SQL ...