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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 2014 In-Memory OLTP – bwin Migration and Production Experience
As part of our SQL Server 2014 In-Memory OLTP blog series we asked early adopter Rick Kutschera from bwin.party, to blog about his solution experience
Buffer Pool Extension to SSDs in SQL Server 2014
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
Premium Preview for Windows Azure SQL Database Now Live!
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
Architectural Overview of SQL Server 2014’s In-Memory OLTP Technology
At the SQL PASS conference last November, we announced the In-memory OLTP database technology (code-named “Hekaton”) for a future SQL Server release. Microsoft’s technical fellow
What’s New for Columnstore Indexes in SQL Server 2014
In SQL Server 2012, we introduced the memory optimized columnstore index. This resulted in huge query performance improvements but columnstore indexes had one significant disadvantage
In-Memory OLTP Q & A: Myths and Realities
Since SQL Server In-Memory OLTP (formerly known as project code-named “Hekaton”) was unveiled at PASS last November, there has been a lot of conversation and
Microsoft CityNext Initiative Puts People First
Today, at the Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston, Microsoft announced CityNext, a global initiative empowering cities, businesses and citizens to re-imagine their futures and cultivate
A Closer Look at the Premium Offer for Windows Azure SQL Database
As part of the main keynote yesterday at the Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Houston, Texas, Satya Nadella, Server and Tools President, discussed partner and
Introducing Power BI for Office 365
Today we are pleased to announce a new offering that builds on our cloud-first data platform — Power BI for Office 365. Unveiled this morning
Microsoft Discusses Big Data at Hadoop Summit 2013
Hortonworks and Yahoo! kicked of the sixth annual Hadoop Summit yesterday in San Jose, the leading conference for the Apache Hadoop community. We’ve been on
AlwaysOn in SQL Server 2014 CTP1
AlwaysOn encompasses the SQL Server solutions for mission-critical high availability and disaster recovery. Two solutions were included under the AlwaysOn umbrella in SQL Server 2012:
Getting Started with SQL Server 2014 In-Memory OLTP
SQL Server 2014 introduces memory-optimized database technology for optimizing the performance of OLTP workloads. In particular, it introduces memory-optimized tables for efficient, contention-free data access,