Hadoop is big, but there’s no doubt that the game changer will be marrying SQL— the primary language used by business analysts for ad hoc analysis—with Hadoop. If you don’t want the information in ...

Using SSDT means we don't just shout orders at the database; instead, we plan what we're going to say. For almost 13 years, Microsoft has tried to make Visual Studio a place where developers can do ...

Historically, if you wanted to report against all of the business operations of your company, it was a very expensive ordeal. At ClearVoice, we needed to be able to collect data across many platforms, ...

Developers can now leverage real-time data using standard ANSI SQL, with new functionality including elastic storage separated from compute, strict-serializability, active replication and horizontal ...

In previous columns, we’ve noted that the SQL language is in the ascendant. New SQL native databases such as CockroachDB and Yugabyte are showing robust adoption, while non-relational (NoSQL) ...

Conceptually, Multi-Structured Tables provide a queryable view of not only traditional structured data, but also non-relational data such as text, document, and key-value pair data in one unified ...

Following an almost 2-year preview, AWS's time series database, Amazon Timestream, is now generally available. Timestream is a serverless, purpose-built database that exposes time series data through ...