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 ...

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.

SQL Server AlwaysOn Perhaps, the most notable improvement in the mix is the integration of SQL Server AlwaysOn availability groups in Windows Azure Infrastructure Services for disaster recovery and ...

More details are emerging about in-memory capabilities and how they boost performance in the new SQL Server 2014, announced at the recent TechEd 2013 conference and possibly due for a CTP this month.

SQL Server’s data mining add-ins for Microsoft Office let Excel and Visio users access the reporting and analytics features of SQL Server itself, allowing them to take advantage of server-side ...

EMC has essentially done a heart transplant from Greenplum of everything needed to run scalable SQL queries and planted it on top of the Hadoop File System. This means that you can now store ...

SQL is currently “the Rosetta Stone for data,” Bradford Stephens said, every player trying to integrate SQL queries into Hadoop.

A 'preview' test release of Microsoft's Windows Azure SQL Database Premium service offering and an enhanced Windows Azure update were released in two separate items on Wednesday.

In addition to myriads of SQL, NoSQL and NewSQL databases, Salesforce.com has announced project Phoenix, an SQL layer on top of Apache HBase, a column-oriented Big Data store.

Google crawler tricked into performing SQL injection attacks using decade-old technique Let the search engine do the dirty work with carefully crafted links.

Allowing much faster SQL queries at scale makes big data analytics accessible by many more people in the enterprise and fits in with existing workflows.

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 ...