Security is a longstanding priority for Microsoft across its products and offerings. In fact, SQL Server has pro­duced the fewest security vulnerabilities of all the major database platforms for many ...
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SQL has dominated data querying for decades. Newer query languages offer more elegance, simplicity, and flexibility for modern use cases. For the last three decades, databases and Structured Query ...
Say what you will about Oracle, it certainly can’t be accused of failing to move with the times. Typically, Oracle comes late to a technology party but arrives dressed to kill. In the early 1990s, ...
It's not a coincidence -- it's a trend. Another globally distributed cloud native SQL database is getting a hefty amount of funding. This time, it's Yugabyte. Yugabyte, a company founded by Facebook ...
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Historically, if you wanted to report against all of the business operations of your company, it was a very expensive ordeal. At ClearVoice, we needed to be able to collect data across many platforms, ...
Microsoft broke new ground in scalability when it launched Azure SQL Database Hyperscale. Here's what it took to make Microsoft's hyperscale vision work with the existing Azure infrastructure. When ...
One of the Azure SQL-related announcements that did not get a lot of publicity at May's Microsoft Build conference was the Azure SQL Database local database experience. With all the hype around SQL ...