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 ...

Microsoft has announced that read-only queries are now captured in the primary Query Store for Azure SQL, expanding visibility into database performance and workload behavior. Pre ...

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Microsoft today introduced the launch of Azure Data Lake Analytics, a new cloud-based service for running queries on big data stored in the Microsoft’s growing public cloud. It uses a new ...

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Microsoft started rolling out an update this week to its Azure Log Analytics service that promises to bring improved search, plus a new query language. The new SQL-like query language that will be ...

Google Cloud on Tuesday announced the launch of its new BigQuery Omni multi-cloud analytics tool, which it says will enable customers in healthcare and elsewhere more easily query data stored in ...

Google Cloud is previewing a BigQuery service that promises to eliminate painful and costly data movement by querying the data in place Google Cloud has unveiled a new BigQuery service designed to ...

Google has made clear that Omni isn't just a big branding exercise about connectors to S3 and ADLS (Amazon's Simple Storage Service and Azure Data Lake Storage, respectively), either. Instead, ...