Microsoft is touting a new version of SQL Server that features in-memory processing for faster web transactions. But Azure is fast becoming the star in Microsoft's big data strategy.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

It's the underlying technology behind many "big data" analysis tools being used to sift through huge volumes of information created by Web visits, server logs, and all other sorts of data streams.

Google Cloud has updated its fully managed distributed SQL database service Spanner to add graph processing capabilities, dubbed Spanner Graph.. The update is expected to help developers build ...

This article explores advanced strategies for enhancing big data pipelines through SQL-driven data ingestion combined with Python automation. Rahul M Updated: Wednesday, July 24, 2024, 06:04 PM IST ...

His research was recently published in the International Journal of Management, IT & Engineering on "Optimizing Big Data Processing in SQL Server through Advanced Utilization of Stored Procedures." ...

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 ...