Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the performance of ISV application code. Here's how it works. Database ...

Key-value, document-oriented, column family, graph, relational… Today we seem to have as many kinds of databases as there are kinds of data. While this may make choosing a database harder, it makes ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. As cloud storage becomes more common, data security is an increasing concern ...

Microsoft recently released a SQL Server 2008 add-in for MapPoint. MapPoint is Microsoft's business mapping application and gives users the power to visualize business data and communicate insights in ...

To offer more Big Data analytics capabilities across its data-based ecosystem, Microsoft is updating various data platform components. Among a bevy of products and services receiving updates are key ...