Last week, Microsoft unveiled the first release candidate refresh for SQL Server 2019, with Big Data Clusters being the primary focus of the announcement. This capability allows for the deployment of ...

Microsoft introduced a preview of the latest edition of its flagship RDBMS, SQL Server 2019, highlighting new Big Data capabilities. The company said v2019 creates a unified data platform by packaging ...

I've been playing with the new SQL Server Data Tools, and I'm impressed by the way Microsoft has gotten the product out for review and is improving it with user-requested functionality. I've been ...

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Besides launching a set of updated products Wednesday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer lauded the company’s IT user base, calling them the “heart and soul” of the industry. CEO Steve Ballmer tossed the ...

Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools. To provide an example using real source, I created a simple Winforms ...

In this second delve into data cleanliness (read the first, How clean is your data?, here), we’ll test-drive the data profiling tool provided with Microsoft SQL Server. Other profiling tools have ...