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 ...

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 ...