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.

SQL Server™ code-named “Katmai,” the next release of Microsoft® SQL Server, will help companies access and manage rapidly increasing volumes of data for mission-critical applications, increase their ...

Microsoft also plans to end support in SQL Server 2022 for Cloudera and Hortonworks external data sources. Organizations should switch to SQL Server 2022's "new object storage integration" instead.

Today Microsoft announced the general availability of SQL Server 2012, the world’s most widely deployed data platform for managing, accessing and delivering information. SQL Server 2012 helps address ...

Joseph Sirosh, Microsoft's new Data Group head, today announced a new CTP of SQL Server 2016, along with a preview of Azure Data Lake Store and Analytics services and a preview of Azure SQL ...