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Best Practices June 2, 2015 1 min read

Assess the health of SQL Server deployments in Azure VM using Microsoft Operations Management Suite

Do you want to assess the health of your SQL Server deployments on Azure Virtual machines? Do you want to ensure that you have an optimal SQL Server configuration? At Ignite 2015 we released a tool for this.

Updates May 27, 2015 3 min read

SQL Server 2016 first public preview now available!

Three weeks ago at Microsoft Ignite, we announced SQL Server 2016, the next major release of Microsoft’s flagship database and analytics platform, as well key innovations in the release.

Updates May 15, 2015 1 min read

SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 1 Now Available for Download

Today, we are pleased to announce the availability of SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 1 (SP1).

Best Practices May 5, 2015 4 min read

Top reasons why enterprises should choose Azure SQL Data Warehouse

Guest post by Tiffany Wissner, Senior Director, Data Platform Yesterday at Microsoft’s Ignite conference, we demoed the first sneak peek of Azure SQL Data Warehouse.

Updates May 4, 2015 4 min read

SQL Server 2016 public preview coming this summer

Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, announced SQL Server 2016, an intelligent platform for a mobile first, cloud first world.

Updates April 29, 2015 1 min read

SQL Server 2005 support ends April 2016 – Here’s why that’s a good thing

Now’s the perfect time to deploy Microsoft SQL Server 2014.

Updates April 29, 2015 4 min read

Microsoft Announces Azure SQL Database elastic database, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Azure Data Lake

In this mobile-first, cloud-first world, we’re creating and consuming data through new devices and services – and developers are building applications and analytics solutions at a rapid pace to take advantage of the new forms, types and sizes of data.

Updates April 23, 2015 6 min read

Updates

Assess the health of SQL Server deployments in Azure VM using Microsoft Operations Management Suite

SQL Server 2016 first public preview now available!

SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 1 Now Available for Download

Top reasons why enterprises should choose Azure SQL Data Warehouse

SQL Server 2016 public preview coming this summer

SQL Server 2005 support ends April 2016 – Here’s why that’s a good thing

Microsoft Announces Azure SQL Database elastic database, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Azure Data Lake

Azure Premium Storage provides highest performance for SQL Server in Azure VM

SQL Server 2005 support ends April 2016. Are you ready?

SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 1 Update

SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 1 is now available

Still running SQL Server 2005? Now is the time to upgrade

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