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 ...

Nodes can run as SQL compute nodes, SQL storage nodes or HDFS data nodes. In the HDFS case, SQL Server and Apache Spark run co-located, in the same container. All of this interoperability is ...

As a mainstream relational database, SQL Server would appear to be irrelevant in the Big Data landscape. As it turns out, SQL Server is important in the Big Data world, but not because of the core ...

When it comes to implementing a big data strategy in a Microsoft SQL Server shop, you’re generally going to consider one of three strategies. In the first strategy, which I won’t be addressing today, ...

Microsoft introduced a preview of the latest edition of its flagship RDBMS, SQL Server 2019, highlighting new Big Data capabilities. The company said v2019 creates a unified data platform by packaging ...

Microsoft SQL Server 2014 promises to help its customers ... faster than your competitors is what it’s all about in the big data age. Here the guy with the most marketing money and biggest ...

The SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters add-on and the PolyBase Scale-Out Groups feature are getting dropped. Microsoft generally wants organizations to plan to switch to SQL Server 2022 ...

accompanied by fellow retiree SQL Server Big Data Clusters.… The move of Microsoft's 2019 version of its database into Redmond's equivalent of a software care home means only SQL Server 2022 ...

In my last article, I told you a bit about Microsoft’s overall big data strategy in SQL Server 2014 (which has just become available to customers) with a deep dive ...