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June 23, 2020 By James Bennett < 1 min read

Today, IBM SQL Query is making new features available to our users that provide industry-leading optimisations for running intensive data queries at scale within IBM Cloud.

Our Database Catalog support, backed by a fully managed Hive Metastore compatible service, has now moved from open beta to generally available. We are pairing this announcement with open beta support for Data Skipping.

For more information on these two capabilities, please see the following blog posts, which provide much more detail about these capabilities:

The combination of these feature sets offers industry-leading optimisations as you look to query and transform your enterprise data within IBM Cloud.

Get started for free today with IBM SQL Query.

James Bennett
Product Management, IBM Cloud Data Services

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