Tag: SQL

June 3, 2016

As promised, and after a year of numerous preview releases, SQL Server 2016 is now generally available along with the customer support and software assurance benefits that come with hitting the milestone, announced Microsoft on June 1. SQL Server 2016 […]

June 2, 2016

The next version of Microsoft’s SQL Server relational database management system is now available, and along with it comes a special offer designed specifically to woo Oracle customers. Until the end of this month, Oracle users can migrate their databases […]

May 26, 2016

Oracle is introducing a major new release of its NoSQL database – version of 4.0. First unveiled in 2011, the Oracle NoSQL Database is a key-value database that evolved from the company’s acquisition of BerkeleyDB Java Edition, a mature, high-performance […]

May 3, 2016

SQL Server 2016, Microsoft’s newest database software, is set to become available on June 1 along with a no-cost, developers-only version. With its new features and revised product editions, Microsoft is determined to expand SQL Server appeal to the largest possible number […]

April 28, 2016

The team behind Pivotal’s GemFire in-memory transactional data store recently unveiled a new database solution powered by GemFire and Apache Spark, called SnappyData. SnappyData is another recent example of Spark employed as a component in a larger database solution, with […]

April 11, 2016

Tuesday marks the end of support for Microsoft SQL Server 2005, and that means companies relying on it are just about out of time. There will be no more updates from Microsoft, so staying with the software could open you […]

April 8, 2016

One of more common concerns among database administrators who consider migrating their estate to Azure SQL Database is their ability to manage efficiently the migrated workloads. In particular, the absence of the SQL Server Agent introduces the challenge of identifying […]

April 7, 2016

According to a new article, “MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the industry’s only Converged Data Platform, today announced the availability of Apache Drill 1.6 as the unified SQL layer for the MapR Converged Data Platform via tighter integration with MapR-DB. […]

March 31, 2016

Startup MapD Technologies has released a new database and analytics platform that claims to be orders of magnitude faster than competing solutions, due to its use of GPU processing to accelerate queries. Founded by Todd Mostak, a former researcher MIT Computer Science […]

March 4, 2016

Microsoft is keeping up its push to provide businesses with hybrid cloud tools by offering a new feature that lets companies stretch their database tables from on-premises infrastructure to its Azure storage service. Microsoft is launching its SQL Server Stretch […]