Microsoft introduced a preview of the latest edition of its flagship RDBMS, SQL Server 2019, highlighting new Big Data capabilities. The company said v2019 creates a unified data platform by packaging ...

Microsoft also plans to end support in SQL Server 2022 for Cloudera and Hortonworks external data sources. Organizations should switch to SQL Server 2022's "new object storage integration" instead.

SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters also retired last week – three years after the initial announcment on February 25, 2022. At the time, Microsoft said the decision was due to customer feedback ...

A key part is data virtualisation, eliminating complex ETL processes. Microsoft says its flagship database product, SQL Server 2019, will make it a lot easier to manage a big data environment.

To assess that statement, a little background is on order. In November, at its Ignite conference in Orlando, FL, Microsoft announced the general availability of SQL Server 2019.

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