The death of SQL has been greatly exaggerated. With all apologies to Mark Twain, the demise of Structured Query Language (SQL), having been forecasted for a while, is far from a done deal. In fact ...

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 ...

Microsoft's data platform tools are already "a pretty big business," with SQL Server alone accounting for $5 billion in annual revenue, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said at a customer event in San ...

I have visions of regularly dumping and clearing Windows event logs and storing them in the medium-long term in a SQL database.<BR><BR>Why? So I can query them -<BR>"Show me all previous ...

Scott Guthrie, head of Microsoft’s cloud and enterprise software division, recently announced some major updates to the SQL on Azure cloud database services portfolio. The enhancements ...

The new Pivotal HD Hadoop distribution from EMC Greenplum is targeted at adding SQL-like high performance, scalability and ease-of-use to Hadoop big data processes.