PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...

Migration Advice Microsoft offered painful advice for organization eyeing the end of the SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters add-on and the PolyBase Scale-Out Groups feature.

For many, SQL Server 2005 insures their critical applications or data – it’s embedded in their day-to-day operations, so they continue to use it. The sum of total of users still running SQL Server ...

Microsoft capped off a week of high-profile announcements related to SQL Server with an aggressive migration offer aimed at Oracle database customers. Here's the bottom line, from Microsoft's ...

An upgrade involves installing SQL Server 2014 on top of your existing SQL Server deployment, whereas a migration involves setting up new SQL Servers and migrating data to the new environment.

We have an ancient AS/400 730 system that still houses some old budget/financial data. We'd like to decommission this box, and migrate the data to a SQL server. The data won't be modified or ...

News Access to SQL Server Migration Made Easy 2SQL from Australia-based ConvertU2 aims to ease the migration from Microsoft Access to SQL Server. By Doug Barney 11/01/2006 Many organizations get ...

Moving SQL Server 2005 data will be the easy part compared to the app migrations.

An interesting session I attended at the PASS Summit in Seattle was one concerning dealing with VLDBs in SQL Server. It was called “Big Data – Working with Terabytes in SQL Server” presented ...

If you have accidently deleted data from database tables in MS SQL Server, you can restore the deleted data (tables) using Log Sequence Number (LSN). But for this, you need the transaction backup file ...