Microsoft's SQL Server 2012 has released to manufacturing. This release of the 20+ year-old database has tie-ins to Hadoop and Big Data analytics in general.

For more on SQL and Big Data, check out the Oracle OpenWorld 2014 agenda, where there are dozens of sessions on how these technologies can help advance an enterprise IT strategy.

In this course, you'll get a big-picture view of using SQL for big data, starting with an overview of data, database systems, and the common querying language (SQL). Then you'll learn the ...

When it comes to implementing a big data strategy in a Microsoft SQL Server shop, you're generally going to consider three approaches, one of which is a cloud implementation. SQL Server 2012, and even ...

News. Oracle Adds SQL Twist to Big Data. By David Ramel; July 15, 2014; In an age of NoSQL and Hadoop, original "Big 3" RDBMS vendor Oracle Corp. is getting back to its roots with a new product ...

SQL Encroaches on Big Data Turf. Remember when SQL developers felt threatened by Big Data? Relational database management systems were old-school relics that couldn't cope with the vast amounts of ...