Now, it’s time to follow up with a discussion of Microsoft’s cloud-centric approach to big data using HDInsight. Microsoft SQL Server and Big Data in the Cloud HDInsight is a 100% Apache Hadoop ...

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.

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.

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Big Data Data Management Vendors Businesses are struggling with the rapidly increasing volume, speed and variety of information being generated today – what's come to be known as big data.

Hekaton, Microsoft's coming in-memory database engine, will be built into the next version of SQL Server. Meanwhile, SQL Server 2012 SP1 is now generally available.

One configures SQL Server for high availability (HA) in anticipation of some event that will cause a critical application to go offline unexpectedly-a software glitch that causes an app to freeze or a ...

With the latest public preview available, it's time to see if you want to upgrade to the most cloud-connected version of SQL Server so far.

Streaming data records are typically small, measured in mere kilobytes, but the stream often goes on and on without ever stopping. Streaming data, also called event stream processing, is usually ...

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