Got a modern Nvidia or AMD graphics card? Custom Llamas are only a few commands and a little data prep away Hands on Large language models (LLMs) are remarkably effective at generating text and regurgitating information, but they're ultimately limited by the corpus of data they were trained on....

Windows giant also improving Iceberg support after throwing lot in with Delta Parquet Ignite Microsoft is set to launch a database service that can manage transactional and analytical workloads in the same system....

After fifteen years of big hype, less than 25% of orgs measure value of data, analytics Fifteen years of big data hype, and guess what? Less than one in four of those in charge of analytics projects actually measure the value of the activity to the organization they work for....

SQL Server and Cosmos DB added to data lake platform as lure for building AI features into transactional systems Microsoft is throwing more transactional database systems into its Fabric analytics and data lake environment in expectation the proximity will help users that are adding AI to their systems....

Data analytics vendors have tried this before with limited success In the past few weeks, both Snowflake and Databricks dipped into their respective acquisition funds and found the resources to buy specialist providers of PostgreSQL database systems....