One of the most common problems when running SQL Servers is slow queries. The help desk or database team usually hears that described as the application is slow or the database is slow. In the ...

Microsoft described at its TechEd conference how SQL Server 2014 will have deep ties with Azure.

Yesterday's open sourcing of a new distributed SQL query engine for Big Data developed by Facebook, called Presto, is but the latest in a plethora of high-profile, SQL-related Big Data initiatives.

More details are emerging about in-memory capabilities and how they boost performance in the new SQL Server 2014, announced at the recent TechEd 2013 conference and possibly due for a CTP this month.

SQL Server AlwaysOn Perhaps, the most notable improvement in the mix is the integration of SQL Server AlwaysOn availability groups in Windows Azure Infrastructure Services for disaster recovery and ...

News SQL Server 2014 Announced at TechEd2013 By David Ramel 06/04/2013 Microsoft unveiled SQL Server 2014 on Monday and said the new version is designed with "cloud-first principles." It will feature ...

SQL is currently “the Rosetta Stone for data,” Bradford Stephens said, every player trying to integrate SQL queries into Hadoop.

EMC has essentially done a heart transplant from Greenplum of everything needed to run scalable SQL queries and planted it on top of the Hadoop File System. This means that you can now store ...

SQL Server’s data mining add-ins for Microsoft Office let Excel and Visio users access the reporting and analytics features of SQL Server itself, allowing them to take advantage of server-side ...

In addition to myriads of SQL, NoSQL and NewSQL databases, Salesforce.com has announced project Phoenix, an SQL layer on top of Apache HBase, a column-oriented Big Data store.