Updates

Today, Microsoft announced the general availability of Windows Azure HDInsight, its cloud-based distribution of Hadoop.

SQL Server 2014 CTP2 includes three SQL Server Backup and Restore enhancements.

Microsoft recently announced several new ways to back up and recover SQL Server databases with Windows Azure.

Microsoft SQL Server 2014 CTP2 was announced by Quentin Clark during the Microsoft SQL PASS 2013 keynote.

SQL Server professionals, join us October 16 and 18 for two fast-paced, demo filled days of free training, live and online!  If you aren’t able to attend PASS, you can take advantage of these 2 full days of expert led instruction.

SQL Server 2014 introduces enhancements to two common database maintenance operations namely Partition Switching and Online Index Rebuild which greatly increases enterprise application availability by reducing maintenance downtime impact.

How many of you have been looking into ways of cost effectively improving the performance of your OLTP workloads, without having to buy new more expensive hardware? Most of you know already that memory is one of the key assets available for the SQL Server and especially buffer pool memory, which plays key role in […]

On July 8, 2013, at the Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Houston, Texas, Satya Nadella, Server and Tools President announced a new Premium service for Windows Azure SQL Database that delivers more predictable performance for business-critical applications.