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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Microsoft introduced a preview of the latest edition of its flagship RDBMS, SQL Server 2019, highlighting new Big Data capabilities integrated into the core database engine.

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 ...

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

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 ...