I recently attended internal training on Microsoft Big Data presented by our partner in this space Horton Works. It was a bit of a learning curve as the world of Big Data is a paradigm shift to the relational world, or so I thought. It turns out it isn't that remarkably different. The Horton Works guys...

Well there are many reasons for this question and I could go on. However in short it is not only because of the innovative technology we bring out such as Windows, Kinect, Surface, Windows Phone and of course SQL Server along with many others – it is the solutions that people dream and implement using...