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How the Microsoft SQL team is investing in SQL tools and experiences
Microsoft is modernizing SQL tools with AI, SSMS, Visual Studio Code, and DevOps features to boost productivity and future-proof development.
Innovation spotlight: How 3 customers are driving change with migration to Azure SQL
Learn how Microsoft Azure SQL Managed Instance helps organizations move from legacy constraints to a scalable and secure AI-ready foundation.
SQL Server 2016 Upgrade Advisor Preview and CTP 2.2 now available
Revised on July 28 UPDATE: The issue with the initial release of SQL Server 2016 CTP 2.2 that caused downtime during rolling upgrades across an AlwaysOn
Announcing Spark for Azure HDInsight public preview
Lighting up interactive insights on big data By T. K. “Ranga” Rengarajan, corporate vice president, Data Platform Today, we’re announcing the public preview of Spark
Datazen Publisher for Windows 7 Preview now available
We are pleased to announce the availability of Datazen Publisher for Windows 7 Preview. Datazen Publisher is the single point for creation and publishing of
Preview the new JDBC 4.2 for SQL Server Driver
Today we are pleased to announce availability of the Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Microsoft JDBC 4.2 Driver for SQL Server! The driver provides
SQL Server 2016 Community Technology Preview 2.1 is available
Following the release of SQL Server 2016 CTP 2.0 last month, the SQL Server engineering team is excited to announce the immediate availability of CTP
SQL Server 2016 launches new rapid preview model with CTP 2.1
From Tiffany Wissner, Senior Director, Data Platform In the SQL Server CTP 2 blog, T.K. Ranga Rengarajan, CVP of SQL Server engineering, discussed bringing cloud first
Azure SQL Data Warehouse opens for Limited Public Preview
By Tiffany Wissner, Senior Director, Data Platform At the Build conference in April, we announced Azure SQL Data Warehouse, our new enterprise-class elastic data warehouse-as-a-service.
MapR-based Hadoop Clusters Coming to the Azure Marketplace
Microsoft is committed to continuous innovation to make Azure the best cloud platform for running hyper-scale big data projects. This includes an existing Hadoop-as-a-service solution,
Guest Blog: Delivering Transformational Outcomes with Hortonworks Data Platform 2.3
Guest post by Rohit Bakhshi, Product Manager at Hortonworks Inc. Over the past two quarters, Hortonworks has been able to attract over 200 new customers. We
HP and Microsoft announce a new Superdome X Reference Configuration Guide for SQL Server 2014
HP recently announced (see HP Announcement) the certification of the powerful scale-up Superdome X server. It is purposefully designed to support the most demanding, critical
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
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