There is increasing demand to integrate big data analytic systems using SQL. Given the vast ecosystem of SQL applications, enabling SQL capabilities allows big data platforms to expose their analytic ...

A traveler says they encountered a seat squatter situation on a flight and fellow passengers got involved, encouraging the rightful seat owner to switch. Social media users react.

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For the past fifty years, SQL has helped us understand, manipulate and use our data to our advantage.

In addition to the Snowpark Python API and Python Scalar User Defined Functions (UDFs), Snowpark for Python supports the Python UDF Batch API (Vectorized UDFs), Table Functions (UDTFs), and Stored ...

In Excel spreadsheets, complex formulas are difficult to enter without making mistakes. Microsoft Excel’s LAMBDA() function can make such errors easier to find.

Microsoft has clarified the more confusing elements of SQL Server licensing and extended major benefits to customers. The catch is that Software Assurance is required to take advantage of them.

Support enhancements for Showplan XML in scalar user-defined functions and exposed information about memory fractions This release includes over eight improvements and 21 support and diagnostic ...

Server-making startup TidalScale, which introduced itself and its new product a year ago at the Open Compute Project Summit, has unveiled the next generation of its software-defined server —what ...