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 ...

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 ...

While the big news is around SQL Server Big Data clusters, there are a number of major improvements that continue to improve and transform the centerpiece of the Microsoft data platform stack.

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.

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.

StreamSets, provider of a DataOps platform, is supporting and integrating its platform for Microsoft's recently announced SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters. With this integration, SQL users are ...

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.

It was called “Big Data – Working with Terabytes in SQL Server” presented by Andrew Novick. As you would expect, the session was packed. The definition of a very large database is a moving ...

Microsoft's SQL Server 2012 has released to manufacturing. This release of the 20+ year-old database has tie-ins to Hadoop and Big Data analytics in general.