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 ...

The death of SQL has been greatly exaggerated. With all apologies to Mark Twain, the demise of Structured Query Language (SQL), having been forecasted for a while, is far from a done deal. In fact, ...

Oracle today introduced Oracle Big Data SQL, which allows customers to run one SQL query across Hadoop, NoSQL, and Oracle Database, minimizing data movement while overcoming data silos. According to ...

SQL continues to make inroads in the open source Big Data space this week, with Qubole Inc. open sourcing Quark for SQL virtualization, while MapR Technologies Inc. is converging SQL and JSON in the ...

In an age of NoSQL and Hadoop, original "Big 3" RDBMS vendor Oracle Corp. is getting back to its roots with a new product designed to integrate access across all three data stores with a single SQL ...

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Another 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 by ...