See how to use R to query data in Google BigQuery with the bigrquery and dplyr R packages.

It accepts SQL language queries, empowering traditional SQL query and visualization engines to run directly on Hadoop databases rather than requiring them to work through connections from ...

As I discussed in an earlier column, SQL Server keeps a plan cached for each query it sees (assuming the query requires planning in the first place, of course). That's great for speeding up processing ...

For all the times you don't have SQL Server Manager, here's a tool that's easy to get for prowling databases and issuing SQL commands.