The biggest feature in the SQL Server 2019 preview launched at Ignite is SQL Server Big Data clusters. Travis Wright, Microsoft's principal program manager for SQL Server, explains exactly what ...

And the news is Big...as in Data. First off, Microsoft is releasing a public preview of SQL Server 2019, the next major release of the product. And within the 2019 version, there's lots that's new.

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 ...

SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters also retired last week – three years after the initial announcment on February 25, 2022. At the time, Microsoft said the decision was due to customer feedback ...

Microsoft Does Hadoop 2.2, Too While in-memory processing handles a large amount of “hot data” well, Hadoop is the answer for big data grinding.

"There are still many more things to come between now and the time SQL Server 2019 becomes generally available. However, it is clear that Microsoft continues to make big investments in the data ...

“A couple years ago everybody was like, no, we don’t need SQL,” says Andy Mendelsohn, Executive Vice President, Oracle Database Server Technologies, expounding on current trends in data ...

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 scales, and is versatile and proven, solving problems ranging from fast write-oriented transactions, to scan-intensive deep analytics. SQL is orthogonal to data representation and storage.

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 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.

SQL Server Big Data clusters is a big investment from Microsoft into a number of technologies -- and it is clear that taking one of its best-selling enterprise products and building on top of the ...