In the meantime, the big question for data leaders is where to implement this logic. The market has split into two ...

Google was at the forefront of the NoSQL movement, an effort to build a new breed of database that can spread epic amounts of data across a sea of low-cost servers. But it has now acknowledged that ...

Today, at its Ignite conference in Orlando, Microsoft is announcing the general availability of a new version of its flagship operational database, SQL Server 2017. SQL Server is a product I have ...

The next version of the Microsoft flagship database promises to add dynamic extensions to Azure and real time links between structured and unstructured data. The next release of Microsoft SQL Server ...

Microsoft Corp. today is introducing updates across its database portfolio as part of general availability announcements for Azure DocumentDB and SQL Server 2025.

Where other database vendors require you to purchase an entirely separate in-memory database engine, Hekaton is built right into SQL Server. It achieves blazing performance by storing tables in main ...

On and off, over the years, I have followed and written about the SQL-on-Hadoop saga. The adventure started with Apache Hive, which originally provided a SQL layer on top of MapReduce, bringing new ...

One reoccurring SQL Server question that I see: Why is my TempDB database so large and what can I go to reduce the size of TempDB? The answer requires some basic understanding of the internals of how ...

SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and querying ...

My lab is setting up a web-accessible database to organize and display sequence data for HIV during different stages of infection, and we are still in the concept/planning phases. My Boss wants to run ...