Global software house Microsoft is making big data the focus of SQL Server 2019, set for release later this year. A key part is data virtualisation, eliminating complex ETL processes. Microsoft says ...

Quite literally, Microsoft has enabled your SQL Server 2019 databases to hold virtual tables which come from some other place on the Internet - whether it is a SQL Server database or otherwise, ...

Microsoft has dabbled in the ETL (extract-transform-load) marketplace for a long time, in fact, almost 2 decades. Way back in the day, SQL Server shipped with a command-line tool known as the Bulk ...