Redmond Magazine

SQL Server 2019 Is Here: A Roundup of Its Best Features

Microsoft announced the general availability of SQL Server 2019 and SQL Server Big Data Clusters at its Ignite conference on Monday. SQL Server 2019 builds on intelligent query processing features ...
ZDNet

Microsoft SQL Server 2008/R2 reach end of support; SQL Server 2019 and Azure await

SQL Server, Microsoft's flagship operational database, has been around for over a quarter century now. That has meant successive waves of innovation for the platform, but has also made for ...
Redmond Magazine

SQL Server 2019 Licensing: How Much Does It Cost and What's Included?

Microsoft only just officially released SQL Server 2019 at its Ignite conference in Orlando, Fla., but it announced some key changes to licensing a little bit earlier. Don't worry -- they're all ...
ZDNet

The big data odyssey of SQL Server 2019, and more data and AI news from Microsoft Ignite

Nodes can run as SQL compute nodes, SQL storage nodes or HDFS data nodes. In the HDFS case, SQL Server and Apache Spark run co-located, in the same container. All of this interoperability is enabled ...
TechCrunch

Microsoft’s SQL Server gets built-in support for Spark and Hadoop

It’s time for the next version of SQL Server, Microsoft’s flagship database product. The company today announced the first public preview of SQL Server 2019 and while yet another update to a ...