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 ...

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 ...

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.

they must lean into smart automation to transform database management. When DevOps teams and DBAs combine effective automation with Microsoft SQL Server use, it allows organizations to experience ...

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 complements its relational database engine ... reporting and analysis. While SQL Server can function independently of these services, they add value by enhancing SQL Server's capacity ...

“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 ...

The tool also allows users to easily visualize their data in Excel with the help of Power View and Power Map. As Eron Kelly, Microsoft’s general manager for SQL Server product marketing ...

Bring AI to your database! Learn how to build smarter apps with vector search in SQL Server & Azure Cosmos DB -- no extra AI ...

“This acquisition accelerates our Power BI strategy to help organizations create a data culture ... it is optimized for SQL Server Analysis Services and the overall Microsoft platform ...