Data analytics contender Databricks offers a platform that, along with the open source Apache Spark technology on which its core is based, has long been a favorite for attacking streaming data, data ...

Microsoft announced at the end of February 2022 that significant changes are in store across its SQL Server analytics products. To set the context, the broader enterprise IT marketplace was still ...

Microsoft calls SQL Server 2016 the “biggest leap forward” in the 27-year evolution of the SQL Server database. As we’ll see, despite the excess of hype, the SQL Server 2016 database offers ...

In the world of data analysis, advanced SQL techniques are essential for extracting valuable insights from complex datasets. This comprehensive guide by Chandoo delves into these powerful techniques, ...

In the vast universe of IT, data is categorized as being either structured or unstructured, from a macro perspective. Generation of unstructured data is orders of magnitude higher than that generated ...

Genie translates plain English questions into structured SQL queries. National Australia Bank (NAB) is rolling out a ...

IBM is introducing a variety of AI tools to IBM SQL Data Insights Pro (SQL DI Pro), generally available as of March 2026, offering semantic search, similarity discovery, anomaly detection, and unified ...

There's a hot job emerging in the tech industry, and it revolves around mastering a new big-data tool run by a startup out of Philadelphia. Called analytics engineers, people in this role use an ...

Online analytical processing (OLAP) databases are purpose-built for handling analytical queries. Analytical queries run on online transaction-processing (OLTP) databases often take a long time to ...