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 ...

Microsoft announced the latest preview of its next-gen SQL Server product at Ignite. Here's a rundown of everything the new release promises, from performance enhancements to security and availability ...

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 debuted SQL Server 2019 at Ignite, but a more technically detailed picture of the next-gen database platform emerged only later at the PASS Summit. Here are some of the standout additions ...

Nodes can run as SQL compute nodes, SQL storage nodes or HDFS data nodes. In the HDFS case, SQL Server and Apache Spark run co-located, in the same container. All of this interoperability is enabled ...

On Monday Microsoft released the latest version of its flagship database. The highly anticipated new version offers a number of a new features, including Big Data clusters, always-on availability and ...

PySpark development is now fully supported in Visual Studio Code. Through an extension built for the aforementioned purpose, users can run Spark jobs with SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters. Last week, ...

The annual PASS Summit, the industry’s largest gathering of SQL Server professionals, hosted more than 4,000 attendees in Seattle recently recently. PASS (www.pass.org) has grown to more than 300 ...

Update: Microsoft released SQL Server 2019 CU8 with a fix for the reliability issue that impacted SQL Server 2019 CU7. Microsoft pulled the Cumulative Update package 7 (CU7) for SQL Server 2019 ...

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