Microsoft first truly disrupted the ETL marketplace with the introduction of SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) back with the release of SQL Server 2005. Microsoft has upped the ante yet again by ...

Global software house Microsoft is making big data the focus of SQL Server 2019, set for release later this year. A key part is data virtualisation, eliminating complex ETL processes.

SQL is not confined to the traditional relational database systems (RDBMS) and data warehousing solutions. SQL-on-Hadoop engines run on top of distributed file systems to help process big data and ...

Learn more about SQL Server Business Intelligence (SQL Server BI) at Techopedia. Data warehouses may provide developers with tools for extracting, transforming, and loading (ETL) data.