In the first of this two-part series, Microsoft's lead SQL architect explains how the company collects -- and secures -- telemetry data from Azure SQL Database customers to improve its engineering ...

Joey on SQL Server A Deep Dive Inside Azure SQL Database, Part 1 Microsoft promises 99.995 percent uptime for the Azure SQL platform, which is incredible.

Then in “The end of SQL databases – part 3” I will point you to NoSQL Internet resources, past and upcoming events and offer some guidance.

Five SQL Improvements That Are Transforming Hadoop &Big Data Analytics Several key Hive features introduced by the Stinger and Stinger.next projects are democratizing SQL on Hadoop and making Big Data ...