Ignite, Microsoft's annual IT Pro and Developer confab kicks off today, with a slew of news in the data, analytics and AI areas of the company's stack, both in-cloud and on-premises.

Microsoft introduced a preview of the latest edition of its flagship RDBMS, SQL Server 2019, highlighting new Big Data capabilities integrated into the core database engine.

Data Amp, Microsoft's new online data platform event, the company is announcing Python in the next version of SQL Server, GA of Azure Analysis Services, Cortana Intelligence Suite solution ...