Microsoft last week announced a wave of new features for its data platform, along with the SQL Server 2017 name and what Microsoft calls a “production quality” beta release. Other important changes ...

Google has now added machine learning (ML) capabilities to its Google BigQuery, the company's petabyte (PB)-scale cloud database offering. Now dubbed BigQuery ML, the new version lets you use simple ...

IBM is introducing a variety of AI tools to IBM SQL Data Insights Pro (SQL DI Pro), generally available as of March 2026, offering semantic search, similarity discovery, anomaly detection, and unified ...

Microsoft is getting really serious about giving customers choices. That much was clear at this week's combined Microsoft Ignite and Envision events in Orlando and, in particular, in announcements ...