The widely used Structured Query Language is gaining new life as a standard data access method for Big Data.

Microsoft's SQL Server 2012 has released to manufacturing. This release of the 20+ year-old database has tie-ins to Hadoop and Big Data analytics in general.

It was called “Big Data – Working with Terabytes in SQL Server” presented by Andrew Novick. As you would expect, the session was packed. The definition of a very large database is a moving ...