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.

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.

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.

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 ...

"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 ...

Microsoft announced a major new version of its flagship database, SQL Server, that aims to extend support for big data and the in-memory processing capability added to the current version. It was ...

The widely used Structured Query Language is gaining new life as a standard data access method for Big Data.

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 on Monday revealed that hospitals and other IT shops should expect the next generation of its database to be available on June 1. Dubbed SQL Server 2016, the forthcoming iteration brings a ...

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.

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 ...