Microsoft described at its TechEd conference how SQL Server 2014 will have deep ties with Azure.

Microsoft’s SQL Server 2012, the latest version of its SQL Server platform, is in many ways a response to the demands of the cloud and “big data” applications. SQL Server has evolved from its humble ...

Microsoft on Tuesday released the SQL Server 2014 Community Technology Preview 1 and the cloud-based SQL Server 2014 Community Technology Preview 1 on Windows Azure. Both can be downloaded from the ...

One of the most common problems when running SQL Servers is slow queries. The help desk or database team usually hears that described as the application is slow or the database is slow. In the ...

One of the great things about Hadoop is that it's open source, which allows developers of all stripes to lash their code to the beast and give it a whirl. One of the big data software startups riding ...

News SQL Server 2014 Announced at TechEd2013 By David Ramel 06/04/2013 Microsoft unveiled SQL Server 2014 on Monday and said the new version is designed with "cloud-first principles." It will feature ...

Yesterday's open sourcing of a new distributed SQL query engine for Big Data developed by Facebook, called Presto, is but the latest in a plethora of high-profile, SQL-related Big Data initiatives.

Remember when SQL developers felt threatened by Big Data? Relational database management systems were old-school relics that couldn't cope with the vast amounts of unstructured, disparate data. NoSQL ...

News SQL Server AlwaysOn Support Coming to Windows Azure By Kurt Mackie 08/13/2013 In an announcement made on Monday, Microsoft announced five Windows Azure improvements, including support for SQL ...