Microsoft SQL Server and Big Data in the Cloud HDInsight is a 100% Apache Hadoop service, currently at v2.2, available through Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud offerings. HDInsight makes all of the ...

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.

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.

Microsoft announced late last month that it'll be ending support for two SQL Server capabilities, with cloud services and SQL Server 2022 typically proposed as replacements.

And, mind you, that growth was generated by SQL Server 2012, not SQL Server 2014, which brings its customers hybrid capabilities and in-memory processing that’s, on average, 1000 percent faster ...

Part 1 of CRN's Big Data 100 looks at the ... technology-based flagship MarkLogic Server works with popular ... either on premise or in the cloud. The SQL database engine can handle ...

Another such option is the enhancement of SQL Server’s PolyBase, a data virtualization and big data connectivity feature, to be compatible with Amazon S3 and all object storage systems that are ...

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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 ...