Easier management of PolyBase and relational data through SQL Server 2019
The days when a database administrator (DBA) could specialize solely in a single database technology are rapidly ending. Today, we're much more likely than ever before to be asked to bring together many types of data from diverse sources. Although ... continue reading

What’s new with SQL Server 2019 Linux features
With SQL Server 2017, Microsoft entered the world of multi-OS platform support for SQL Server. For many technical professionals, the ability to run SQL Server on the same open source operating system as the rest of the application stack is ... continue reading
How to configure persistent memory for SQL Server on Linux
With the release of SQL Server 2019 on Linux, Microsoft introduced persistent memory (PMEM) support on Linux. This is an exciting development, as previous versions of SQL Server on Linux didn't support PMEM. Let's look at how to configure the ... continue reading
New Data Exposed episode: Discovering, classifying, labeling & protecting SQL data
Learn all about the new data classification capabilities built into Azure SQL Database. Data Classification enables discovering, classifying, labeling & protecting the sensitive data in your databases. Examples of sensitive data include business, financial, healthcare, personally identifiable data (PII). Discovering ... continue reading
How to deploy SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters
SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters is a scale-out, data virtualization platform built on top of the Kubernetes container platform. This ensures a predictable, fast, and elastically scalable deployment, regardless of where it's deployed. In this blog post, we'll explain ... continue reading

Reflections on PASS Summit 2019 from the SQL Tools Team
Last September at Microsoft Ignite 2018, Rohan Kumar, Corporate Vice President of Azure Data, announced the general availability of Azure Data Studio. This month, a little over a year later, Azure Data Studio took PASS Summit 2019 by storm, from ... continue reading
Five essential skills for today’s database administrators
DevOps, the cloud, and new database technologies mean our jobs as database administrators (DBAs) are changing at an ever-faster pace. If you're fascinated by data and all the things you can do with it, it's a thrilling time to be ... continue reading

Build an intelligent analytics platform with SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters
In the most recent releases, SQL Server went beyond relational data and enabled support for graph data, R, and Python machine learning, while making SQL Server available on Linux and containers in addition to Windows. At the same time, organizations ... continue reading
New memory and compute optimized hardware options in Azure SQL Database
Now in preview, M-series and Fsv2-series are new hardware generations in Azure SQL Database specialized for workloads requiring very high compute or memory scale, or very fast CPU speed. Gen5 in SQL Database continues to provide a balanced compute and ... continue reading
Ingest real time streaming data in SQL Database tables
Ingest real time streaming data in SQL Database tables directly from the Azure SQL Portal Do you have real time streaming data in Event Hub or IoT Hub? Do you want to ingest that data in your SQL Database without ... continue reading
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