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Updates February 17, 2014 1 min read

New Article: Application Patterns and Development Strategies for SQL Server in Windows Azure Virtual Machines

We are very happy to announce that a new guidance for SQL Server in Windows Azure Infrastructures Services is now available online.

Updates February 14, 2014 1 min read

Windows Azure HDInsight Supporting Hadoop 2.2 in Public Preview

Earlier this week, we announced at the O’Reilly Strata Conference that Windows Azure HDInsight now supports Hadoop 2.

Updates February 12, 2014 3 min read

Making Big Data Work for Everyone

This has been a really exciting week for the Microsoft data platform.

Updates January 21, 2014 1 min read

Hortonworks Makes HDP 2.0 for Windows Server Generally Available

Today, Hortonworks announced the general availability of the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) 2.

Updates January 7, 2014 4 min read

SQL Server 2014 In Memory OLTP: Memory-Optimized Table Types and Table Variables

SQL Server 2014 In-Memory OLTP introduces two new widely advertised kinds of database objects: memory-optimized tables for efficient data access, and natively compiled stored procedures for efficient query processing and business logic execution.

Updates December 10, 2013 6 min read

SQL Server 2014 Hybrid Cloud Scenarios: Migrating On-Premises SQL Server to Windows Azure Virtual Machines

Those of you who have tried the new version of SQL Server Management Studio might have noticed already that it has a couple of new wizards added.

Updates November 25, 2013 4 min read

Boosting Transaction Performance in Windows Azure Virtual Machines with In-Memory OLTP

With the release of SQL Server 2014 CTP2, you can now significantly boost the performance of your OLTP workloads in Windows Azure Virtual Machines.

Updates November 15, 2013 1 min read

How Does SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) Deliver the Performance that it Does?

Last week, we introduced you to SQL Server PDW, the version of SQL Server built specifically for high performance data warehousing that delivers performance gains of up to 50x compared to traditional data warehouses.

Updates November 13, 2013 3 min read

Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools Update

With the release of SQL Server 2014 Community Technology Preview 2 (CTP2) and the commercial release of Visual Studio 2013, we are excited to announce new preview releases of SQL Server Data Tools to support both database and business intelligence projects.

Updates November 11, 2013 1 min read

New In-Memory OLTP Sample for SQL Server 2014 CTP2

To help you get started with the new In-Memory OLTP feature, we created a sample around sales order processing based on the AdventureWorks sample database.

Updates November 7, 2013 5 min read

IO Resource Governance in SQL Server 2014

Resource Governor was introduced in SQL Server 2008 to achieve predictable performance in a multi-tenant environment, to support mixed workload patterns, to provide mechanisms and tools to deal with runaway queries, and to enforce resource limits for CPU and memory.

Updates November 5, 2013 5 min read

In-Memory OLTP: High Availability for Databases with Memory-Optimized Tables

Starting with SQL Server 2012, the new offering of AlwaysOn Availability Groups and AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instances (FCI) suite of features have enabled Tier-1 customers with mission critical applications to achieve their availability goals with SQL Server with an easy to deploy and manage solution.

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