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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 ...

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Azure SQL Query Store now captures read-only queries, expanding performance visibility beyond transactional workloads DBAs can analyze execution plans and runtime statistics for primary and read-only ...

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 has unveiled a preview of a C++-based vectorized query engine for the Azure Databricks cloud analytics and AI service based on Apache Spark. Azure Databricks, which is delivered in ...

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, ...