Global software house Microsoft is making big data the focus of SQL Server 2019, set for release later this year. A key part is data virtualisation, eliminating complex ETL processes. Microsoft says ...
Microsoft has dabbled in the ETL (extract-transform-load) marketplace for a long time, in fact, almost 2 decades. Way back in the day, SQL Server shipped with a command-line tool known as the Bulk ...
Previously, Microsoft allowed T-SQL queries inside SQL Server 2016 to pull data from Hadoop and return it in a structured way without moving or copying the data. In the 2019 release, this concept of ...