Edge, a leading open source enterprise Postgres company, is launching pgEdge ColdFront, a transparent data tiering solution for PostgreSQL. Unlike other alternatives, ColdFront's cold tier is fully ...

Microsoft has released an early access version of Database Hub. According to Techzine on March 19, Database Hub is an integrated hub that lets users manage databases across edge, platform-as-a-service ...

Born out of Microsoft’s SQL Server Big Data Clusters investments, the Apache Spark Connector for SQL Server and Azure SQL is a high-performance connector that enables you to use transactional data in ...

Which feature in SQL Server and Azure Synapse Analytics lets you run T-SQL queries against external data stores and makes those external sources appear as tables in a SQL database?

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. These practice questions help address commonly misunderstood AZ-204 concepts. If you can answer ...

As developers look to harness the power of AI in their applications, one of the most exciting advancements is the ability to enrich existing databases with semantic understanding through vector search ...

A partitioned table is a table in which the data is split into multiple partitions based on a specific column, usually a date, numeric, or ID column. Each partition contains a subset of the data and ...

Microsoft on Friday warned Azure cloud service users may continue to experience "intermittent errors," blaming the problem on a US East regional networking service configuration change. The outage, ...

This repository contains notebooks and SQL scripts that demonstrate how to use Microsoft SQL Spark Connector to perform bulk import operations from Azure Databricks to Azure SQL Database or SQL Server ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. Time series data is a set of values organized in the order in which they occur and arrive for processing. Unlike transactional data in SQL Server, which is not ...

If you’ve been following some of my recent posts about improving Power BI refresh performance by partitioning tables you will have seen a lot of screenshots that look like the one below: It’s a ...