Every cloud provider these days have a serverless interactive query service that uses standard SQL for data analysis. As for the biggest cloud providers, we have Azure Data Lake analytics, Google BigQuery and Amazon Athena. Due to the fact that my company is using only Amazon cloud, I have some experience with Athena service and I must say that ...

If you have to connect your SQL Server to a DB2 database server, you can quickly stumble upon this “nice” error: Cannot fetch a row from OLE DB provider "IBMDA400" for linked server. After spending some time trying to figure out what was wrong, I found this very complete and useful ...