While data warehouses and cloud-native architectures have grown rapidly, business users are still finding it difficult to reach enterprise data. Even as dashboards and query tools become easier to use ...

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This is an attempt at making a slightly dynamic query to modify in bulk a CMDB at work. Using SQL Server 2008. I'm trying to update a column with a specific value. I want the table, the column and the ...

Hortonworks says the latest version of its Hadoop platform will allow users to extract information from petabyte-scale datasets far more rapidly and simply. Hortonworks Data Platform 2.2, due for ...

Every day, businesses depend on data to operate. Customer orders, quotes for new business, conversations around products, campaigns for marketing—pretty much every business process today is based on ...

Oracle is hoping to turn heads in the crowded data analysis market with Big Data SQL, a software tool that can run a single SQL query against Oracle’s own database as well as Hadoop and NoSQL data ...

Here's a look at different ways to query Hadoop via SQL, some of which are part of the latest edition of MapR's Hadoop distribution SQL: old and busted. Hadoop: new hotness. That’s the conventional ...

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 ...