Which feature in SQL Server and Azure Synapse Analytics lets you run T-SQL queries against external data stores and makes those external sources appear as tables in a SQL database?

The seven companies listed here cover the realistic range of what a buyer will encounter in 2026: embedded ML teams that own ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. Way back in 2023, I kicked off this series with an article called What the Heck is DuckDB?, and it ended up being one ...

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Managing a modern enterprise data landscape in 2026 is a lot like running a high-speed, global railway network. You have massive freight trains of legacy data leaving on-premise servers in Mumbai, ...

Another year passes. I was hoping to write more articles instead of just these end-of-the-year screeds, but I almost died in the spring semester, and it sucked up my time. Nevertheless, I will go ...

This is a multi-part (free) workshop featuring Azure Databricks. It covers basics of working with Azure Data Services from Spark on Databricks with Chicago crimes public dataset, followed by an end-to ...

Originally developed at LinkedIn, Apache Kafka is one of the most mature platforms for event streaming. Kafka is used for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and ...