In the world of data analysis, advanced SQL techniques are ... Fortunately, tools like MySQL Workbench and SQL Server Management Studio simplify the process of generating ER diagrams.

SQL Server Analysis Services provides the multidimensional ... to take advantage of the techniques needed for data warehousing." Microsoft's ColumnStore Indexing is not supported on SQL Azure ...

PolyBase in SQL Server 2022 (source: Microsoft). To help developers and database administrators understand the mechanics ... It was the first book-length analysis of PolyBase and its capabilities and ...

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 ...

Microsoft SQL Server, part of the Windows Server System, is the complete database and analysis offering for rapidly delivering the next generation of scalable e-commerce, line-of-business and business ...

In other words, despite the fact that the motivation for SQL was to use standardized declarative queries, in the real world you see lots of database-specific procedural server programming.

SQL Server and Cosmos DB added to data lake platform as lure for building AI features into transactional systems Microsoft is throwing more transactional database systems into its Fabric analytics and ...

At Build this week, Microsoft announced a few newly integrated products that fit under the new Intelligent Data Platform umbrella. SQL Server 2022: its avowedly most Azure-connected database ...

Microsoft announced a new data access driver for SQL Server that should be the path forward for data developers in the era of .NET Core. As the traditional, Windows-only .NET Framework is basically ...

“Microsoft is several years behind AWS, Google, Oracle, and others when it comes to multimodal data, streaming, and Python support,” he said. But there is one area in which SQL Server 2025 is ...