Ignite, Microsoft's annual IT Pro and Developer confab kicks off today, with a slew of news in the data, analytics and AI areas of the company's stack, both in-cloud and on-premises.

The widely used Structured Query Language is gaining new life as a standard data access method for Big Data.

With growth in unstructured big data, RDBMS is inadequate for big data analytics. Know how to use SQL and MapReduce for big data analytics, instead.

One of the critical decisions facing companies embarking on big data projects is which database to use, and often that decision swings between SQL and NoSQL. SQL has the impressive track record ...

For businesses that want to run analytics on low-cost Hadoop clusters, fully compliant SQL is now possible natively on the big data platform, according to Actian.

The biggest feature in the SQL Server 2019 preview launched at Ignite is SQL Server Big Data clusters. Travis Wright, Microsoft's principal program manager for SQL Server, explains exactly what ...

Learn more about the Foundations for Big Data Analysis with SQL course here including a course overview, cost information, related jobs and more.

Oracle has announced SQL access to data stored in an Oracle Big Data Appliance, initially from Exadata systems, but over time from other models in its Engineered Systems family and then from ...

SQL-Driven Data Ingestion: Enhancing Big Data Pipelines With Python Automation In an era where data drives decision-making and innovation, the ability to effectively manage and process vast ...

According to statistics from Liepin.com, 90% of big data positions require at least one programming language to be mastered. From a data analysis assistant earning 8k a month to a data scientist ...