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. Microsoft says ...

[1] For HDFS and Azure Blob Storage only(For SQL Server 2017, SQL Server 2016 only). [2] For tail of the log only (For SQL Server 2017, SQL Server 2016 only). [3] SQL Server Enterprise edition only.

At its Ignite conference in Orlando today, Microsoft released a new version of its core relational database, SQL Server. The new version, SQL Server 2019, takes important capabilities in its previous ...

With the general release of SQL Server 2019 last year, Microsoft introduced Big Data Clusters (BDC) for customers to run exclusively on Linux containers. Supported through Kubernetes, BDC offer a ...

After the pushing through the first release candidate for SQL Server 2019 in August, and its refresh just a few days later, Microsoft announced general availability for the database management system ...

Microsoft is changing some of its licensing rules, which are already complex. Here’s what small businesses should know.