One key to efficient data analysis of big data is to do the computations where the data lives. In some cases, that means running R, Python, Java, or Scala programs in a database such as SQL Server or ...

Even as large language models have been making a splash with ChatGPT and its competitors, another incoming AI wave has been quietly emerging: large database models. Even as large language models have ...

Occasionally one may hear that a data model is “over-normalized,” but just what does that mean? Normalization is intended to analyze the functional dependencies across a set of data. The goal is to ...

Databases were traditionally highly specialized data stores that were designed for specific tasks and until recently, they've been getting even more specialized. Recall data warehouses? Somebody once ...

Enterprises are creating huge amounts of data and it is being generated, stored, accessed, and analyzed everywhere – in core datacenters, in the cloud distributed among various providers, at the edge, ...

Why SQL Server estates are the fastest path to operating model changeBy Leonardo Boscaro, EMEA Sales Leader, Nutanix DatabaseIssued by NutanixJohannesburg, 26 Feb 2026 Leonardo Boscaro, EMEA Sales ...

Digital transformation. Infrastructure modernization. Global data center demands. All these forces and more are driving enterprises around the world to seek out next generation cloud-based ...

As I described here, Power BI can send SQL queries in parallel in DirectQuery mode and you can see from the Timeline column there is some parallelism happening here – the last two SQL queries ...