Data Analytics and Data Management

With the newly announced SQL Server 2019, Microsoft is expanding its bet on both open source technologies and Apache Spark.

There will likely be several revisions before SQL Server 2019 goes RTM, but now is a good time to check out some of the major changes in the database platform.

The Open Data Initiative is meant to help companies better govern their data while maintaining both privacy and security considerations.

Azure Databricks delivers Apache Spark-based analytics to the Microsoft Azure cloud.

Performance tuning queries on production databases happens, but it absolutely, positively shouldn't. Here's another, more efficient and safe, path to database optimization.