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The Fantastic 12 of 2012: Behind the Scenes of Creating “Rapid Data Exploration & Visualization” 

We have reached the final week of the Fantastic 12 of 2012 contest. We’re looping back to “Rapid Data Exploration & Visualization” with Julie Strauss, Senior Program Manager Lead with the SQL Server Analysis Services Group. Julie shares with us how the Diagram View made its way into PowerPivot. While this may seem like a simple decision, there were trade-offs that needed to be considered.
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The Fantastic 12 of 2012: Behind the Scenes of Creating Fast Time to Solution Technologies 

In the 10th episode of the Behind the Scenes series, it’s time to talk about reducing complexity and accelerating time to solution with turn-key appliances and cloud offerings. In the episode below, Britt Johnston (@BrittJohnston), Principal Group Manager shares what he has heard from customers recently when talking about the HP Enterprise Database Consolidation Appliance which is implemented as a Microsoft Private Cloud.
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Hy-Vee boosts performance by up to 100X, increases competitiveness with Parallel Data Warehouse deployment 

We’ve recently been talking about what goes on behind the scenes with SQL Server. While we love to share stories about the nuts and bolts of what we do, our favorite stories are those showing how customers are using our technology to tackle business challenges and achieve their goals. A great example is Hy-Vee, one of our newest Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) customers.
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New SQL Services in Windows Azure 

As we shared with the launch of Windows Azure, we are advancing our proven on-premises technologies into the cloud to offer customers the flexibility and efficiency of Hybrid IT. To continue to enable SQL Server customers in the cloud, we are offering Windows Azure SQL Reporting and the Preview of SQL Server in new persistent Windows Azure Virtual Machines.
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The Fantastic 12 of 2012: Behind the Scenes of Developing Scale on Demand Capabilities 

We’ve reached the ninth episode of the Behind the Scenes series and in this episode Cihan Biyikoglu (@cihangirb), Senior Program Manager, Windows Azure SQL Database Team, pulls back the curtains on how small engineering teams take an idea and develop it into a feature concept, along with the process and challenges of building consensus around across many other teams to add new Scale on Demand
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The Fantastic 12 of 2012: Behind the Scenes of Big Data Analytics and Data Warehousing 

We’re back with a new episode of The Fantastic 12 of 2012: Behind the Scenes Series and this week we’re covering the hot topic of Big Data! In this episode, Saptak Sen, Senior Product Manager, recaps some the conversations he recently had with customers at the 2012 Strata Conference and the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit 2012.
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