The biggest feature in the SQL Server 2019 preview launched at Ignite is SQL Server Big Data clusters. Travis Wright, Microsoft's principal program manager for SQL Server, explains exactly what ...

SQL Server 2019 (source: Microsoft). It was the baked-in Spark and HDFS functionality that highlighted the preview announcement, however. Microsoft calls this new integrated architecture a "Big Data ...

When designed to support SQL Server, the failover cluster creates a high-performance, high-availability environment that is easy to manage.

PySpark development is now fully supported in Visual Studio Code. Through an extension built for the aforementioned purpose, users can run Spark jobs with SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters.

Creating compliant failover clusters in the Google Cloud One way to build a fully supported SQL Server FCI for high availability involves using third party SANless failover clustering software.

Microsoft announced late last month that it'll be ending support for two SQL Server capabilities, with cloud services and SQL Server 2022 typically proposed as replacements.

Microsoft SQL Server 2019 deploys on Kubernetes and includes a big data cluster architecture that unifies the worlds of relational and big data analysis.

Ask 10 people 'What is high availability?' and you might get 15 different answers. For the purposes here, HA will be defined as ensuring SQL Server is operating when and as needed. 'When' takes into ...

Guys I'm in the process of building my first Windows cluster I will be using Windows Server 2008 the cluster is being designed for SQL Server 2005 my concern centers around network design for the ...