Microsoft has dabbled in the ETL (extract-transform-load) marketplace for a long time, in fact, almost 2 decades. Way back in the day, SQL Server shipped with a command-line tool known as the Bulk ...

Integration of Python for data science, graph processing for NoSQL-like functionality, and it runs on Linux as well as Windows. At almost 30 years of age, Microsoft's flagship database has learned ...

Following closely on the heels of its SQL Server 2016 and 2017 releases, Microsoft is already preparing to release SQL Server 2019, and the company has added a surprising number of new capabilities in ...

I have never used SQL Server Integration Services before and need to extract data out of several Access databases, then transform it and load it into an SQL Server table. Migrating data from Access to ...

In the several weeks leading up to the PASS Virtual Summit in November, I had the good fortune to work with several members of the SQL Server team at Red Hat. They included people such as Louis ...