"'Let's write directly to that, being a SQL-type database, where we then put big-data analytics on top of the SQL capabilities of Actian Hadoop. So I find it quite exiting, which is sad really." ...

SQL Encroaches on Big Data Turf. Remember when SQL developers felt threatened by Big Data? Relational database management systems were old-school relics that couldn't cope with the vast amounts of ...

SQL databases still work pretty well.” DeWitt leads a database research lab at Madison that is helping Microsoft with R&D for its upcoming Parallel Data Warehousing version of SQL Server 2008 R2 ...

Federation consists of a collection of all SQL Azure database instances that contain partitioned data having the same schema. The T-SQL script in "How to Create a Federation with Customers, Orders and ...

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.

In addition to the SQL-on-Hadoop series, previously published videos provide an introduction to SQL, practical and applied data analytics and an explanation of blockchain technology. The videos can ...

Microsoft is touting a new version of SQL Server that features in-memory processing for faster web transactions. But Azure is fast becoming the star in Microsoft's big data strategy.