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Big Data

Better understand customers, enhance decision-making, and increase productivity with insights gained from structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. By analyzing vast quantities of data that were previously inaccessible, you transform your business culture into one that shapes the future with predictive analytics, rather than hindsight.

Updates August 29, 2019 2 min read

SQL Server 2019 release candidate refresh with Big Data Clusters

In continuation with our announcement of SQL Server 2019 release candidate last week, we’re announcing that the release candidate refresh for SQL Server 2019 is now available to download.
Updates July 24, 2019 2 min read

SQL Server 2019 community technology preview 3.2 is now available

We’re excited to announce the monthly release of SQL Server 2019 community technology preview (CTP) 3.
News May 16, 2019 2 min read

SQL Server 2017 achieves top TPC benchmarks for OLTP and DW on Linux and Windows

Once again, SQL Server 2017 has led the pack with three new TPC benchmarks published in April 2019, ranking SQL Server 2017 as the fastest database for online transaction processing (OLTP) and data warehouse (DW) workloads on Windows and Linux.
Updates April 15, 2019 2 min read

3 ways to gain insights with SQL Server 2019 big data clusters

Businesses today are faced with the challenge of staying profitable and investing in future innovations.
Best Practices April 1, 2019 3 min read

How to develop and submit Spark jobs to SQL Server Big Data Clusters in IntelliJ

We’re delighted to release the Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ support for SQL Server Big Data Cluster Spark job development and submission.
Updates March 27, 2019 1 min read

SQL Server 2019 community technology preview 2.4 is now available

Continuing with our monthly release cadence, we’re excited to announce the release of SQL Server 2019 community technology Preview 2.
Updates March 7, 2019 3 min read

Free cloud data services training roundup

To help you stay up to date on online training opportunities, we’re releasing a monthly list of the latest free data and artificial intelligence (AI) trainings in one convenient post.
Updates March 1, 2019 1 min read

SQL Server 2019 community technology preview 2.3 is now available

At the SQL bits keynote today, we announced the release of SQL Server 2019 community technology preview 2.
Updates February 13, 2019 7 min read

The February release of Azure Data Studio is now available

We’re excited to announce the February release of Azure Data Studio (formerly known as SQL Operations Studio) is now available.
Updates February 6, 2019 6 min read

Azure Data Studio – Setting up your environment

This blog entry comes from Buck Woody, who recently rejoined the SQL Server team from the Machine Learning and AI team.
Best Practices January 9, 2019 5 min read

How to automate machine learning on SQL Server 2019 big data clusters

In this post, we will explore how to use automated machine learning (AutoML) to create new machine learning models over your data in SQL Server 2019 big data clusters.
Updates December 10, 2018 1 min read

Announcing SQL Server 2019 community technology preview 2.2

In September we announced SQL Server 2019 preview, the first release of SQL Server to create a unified data platform by packaging Apache SparkTM and Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) together with SQL Server as a single, integrated solution.

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