Simba Technologies has partnered with Hortonworks, a commercial vendor of Apache Hadoop, to provide ODBC access to Hortonworks Data Platform. The use of Simba's Apache Hive ODBC Driver with SQL ...

SQL remains the backbone of enterprise data access. Despite the rise of dashboards, semantic layers, and AI-driven analytics, ...

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If you are interested in the fastest performance, don't use Access as a front-end to a SQL Server database. While Access is relatively easy to learn and fast to develop in, its performance is poor ...

I've been tasked with doing a conversion of an Access 2000 app to SQL Server. As of right now, I'm fine with keeping the front end Access, but I wanted to put the back end tables on SQL. I used the ...

Damian Black, SQLstream CEO, stopped by to introduce his company, discuss a few industry trends, and introduce the company's s-Server 3.0. Here's a summary of our interesting conversation: SQLstream ...

Examine the similarities and differences between Windows security and SQL Server security and you'll find that most of the concepts you already know from managing a network will map quite nicely into ...

Note – This book abbreviates SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services as SSRS and SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services as SSRS2K5. New features available in SSRS and not in SSRS2K5 are labeled with “New in ...