What Is Business Intelligence?

The term Business Intelligence (BI) easily confused with some related processes. These include data analytics, big data and data science. Business Intelligence or SQL Business Intelligence (BI) helps users derive actionable intelligence/information from analyzing available data through software tools. These tools, Business Intelligence software, help business managers take better decisions. Sometimes, these insights can provide…

SQL Database: overview and six editions of SQL Database 2014

The main product from Microsoft in the RDBMS category has been the SQL Database. The main query language supported is T-SQL which is the ANSI standard SQL extended by MS. MS SQL Server was first created for the PS/2 systems in collaboration with Sybase and Ashton Tate. The first release was in 1989, an updated…