In this era of big data, researchers are relying more and more on data mining to help them with their research. Researchers from nearly every field (not to mention businesses from almost every sector) ...

Facebook is open-sourcing Presto, an SQL query engine that it developed in-house to help analysts, data scientists and engineers pick apart the information stored in its enormous data warehouses.

Get ready to scale out SQL Azure databases beyond today's 50GB limit with the Transact-SQL and ADO.NET elastic sharding features, which are coming in the 2011 SQL Azure Federation Community Technology ...

I am just curious if there are other Arsians working with this technology, and what you are doing with it.<BR><BR>I was up at the Reston Microsoft Technology Center for two weeks learning about this ...

Microsoft is evolving its strategy for relational data services in the cloud. As the company's vision for cloud-based computing is shared with over 6,000 developers this week at its Professional ...

Alexandra Twin has 15+ years of experience as an editor and writer, covering financial news for public and private companies. Natalya Yashina is a CPA, DASM with over 12 years of experience in ...

Recent advances in OLAP query recommendations and user interaction are transforming the way data is explored and analysed. Traditional OLAP systems, long reliant on standard roll-up and drill-down ...