Microsoft today announced an update to SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) with other related news, including planned Hadoop support. The second Appliance Update for PDW was released ...

Microsoft published details this month about how it used its own Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) edition of SQL Server 2008 R2 to improve the performance of its company-wide security monitoring system.

The announcement was made at the PASS Summit, which is the de facto Microsoft-endorsed SQL Server conference, and one where database administrators (DBAs) dominate the audience. In presenting PolyBase ...

Last week, at the PASS (Professional Association for SQL Server) Summit in Seattle, Microsoft held a coming-out party, not only for SQL Server 2012b (formerly "Denali"), but also for the company's ...

Microsoft is responding to the “Big Data” movement by adding support for the open-source Hadoop framework for large-scale data processing to its SQL Server database and Parallel Data Warehouse ...

PDW can scale from a few terabytes to over 6 petabytes without degradation in performance. PDW also introduces a breakthrough for "Big Data" deployments with the PolyBase technology that seamlessly ...

Fresh from last week's Build developer conference in San Francisco, Microsoft executives appeared at the company's first-ever Ignite conference in Chicago and provided more details about the company's ...

Microsoft today announced an update to SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) with other related news, including planned Hadoop support. The second Appliance Update for PDW was released ...