The death of SQL has been greatly exaggerated. With all apologies to Mark Twain, the demise of Structured Query Language (SQL), having been forecasted for a while, is far from a done deal. In fact, ...

Anyone who works with databases or data warehouses understands the preeminent role of SQL in structuring database requests. However, recent press reports about NoSQL databases and non-relational big ...

This throws light on using SQL for big data, starting with an overview of data, database systems, and the common querying language (SQL). The characteristics of big data and SQL tools for working on ...

SQL Server Big Data Clusters (BDC) is a new capability brought to market as part of the SQL Server 2019 release. BDC extends SQL Server’s analytical capabilities beyond in-database processing of ...

There was an error while loading. Please reload this page. This is a peer graded assignment completed as a part of Analyzing Big Data with SQL course on Cloudera ...

In the vast universe of IT, data is categorized as being either structured or unstructured, from a macro perspective. Generation of unstructured data is orders of magnitude higher than that generated ...

Regardless of the future of the Microsoft ecosystem (and those latest quarterly numbers should slow the naysayers some), data developers can rest easy knowing their SQL Server skills are transferable ...

Yesterday at the Microsoft Ignite conference, we announced that SQL Server 2019 is now in preview and that SQL Server 2019 will include Apache Spark and Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) for ...