Enriching business activities with data has been the trend for many years and has met varying degrees of success. Today, data management practices across companies vary wildly with some making use of ...

Not long ago, tech leaders were lying awake in the small hours of the night fretting about missing the big data revolution. CIOs and CTOs rushed to hire data scientists, build data lakes, buy new ...

Eyeing the need for organizations to train their own artificial intelligence models, Salesforce Inc. today is announcing a new feature of its Data Cloud data lake that collects information from a ...

Microsoft Product Manager Mike Kistler previews his Visual Studio Live! session on how MCP servers give .NET developers a universal standard for connecting AI models to external data and tools -- and ...

What if the tools you already use could do more than you ever imagined? Picture this: you’re working on a massive dataset in Excel, trying to make sense of endless rows and columns. It’s slow, ...

The jury’s out on screen scraping versus official APIs. And the truth is, any AI agent worth its salt will likely need a mixture of both. AI agent development is off to the races. A 2025 survey from ...

PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...