SQL is not confined to the traditional relational database systems (RDBMS) and data warehousing solutions. SQL-on-Hadoop engines run on top of distributed file systems to help process big data and ...

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Global software house Microsoft is making big data the focus of SQL Server 2019, set for release later this year. A key part is data virtualisation, eliminating complex ETL processes.