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SQL Server on Azure Local is now generally available
With SQL Server on Azure Local, customers can modernize where their data resides while maintaining control over infrastructure, connectivity, and data placement.
What’s next for SQL? Performance, scale, AI, and developer productivity at the European SQL Community Conference
Join Microsoft Fabric and SQL Community Conference 2026 in Barcelona to explore SQL Server 2025, Azure SQL Database Hyperscale, developer productivity tools, and the future of AI-powered data platforms.
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Mature Data Management: Key to Business Success
Data is at the center of today’s business strategy in successful organizations. -
New webinar – Tackle the top five data challenges with SQL Server
The previous two blogs (here and here) in this series discussed how to evaluate the cost effectiveness of SQL Server and the Microsoft data platform and leveraging the asset of an expert community. -
Determining Data Platform Value: Leveraging the asset of an expert community
As discussed in the previous blog in this series, an Ernst and Young study, CFO-CIO: a growing collaboration, finds that “To succeed, organizations must make bold technology investment decisions that are driven by corporate strategy. -
2015 PASS Summit Haiku Contest Rules
Twitter contest time! Need a ticket to PASS Summit 2015? Tell us why you deserve a free pass in 140 characters in the form of a HAIKU. -
Top 10 reasons to upgrade from SQL Server 2005
April 12, 2016, is an important date for organizations still running SQL Server 2005. -
Determining Data Platform Value: A Combination of Strategy, Finance, and Technology
According to a recent Ernst and Young study, CFO-CIO: a growing collaboration, in the past three years, 71 percent of CFOs have increased their involvement in IT purchasing decisions. -
Introducing: SQL Server 2016 Community Technology Preview 2.4
The SQL Server 2016 Community Technology Preview (CTP) 2. -
SQL Server 2016 Community Technology Preview 2.4 is available
Updated on 10/12/15 The SQL Server engineering team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of SQL Server 2016 September public preview release CTP 2. -
Microsoft expands Azure Data Lake to unleash big data productivity
By T. K. “Ranga” Rengarajan, corporate vice president, Data Platform In July of this year, Satya Nadella shared our broad vision for big data and analytics when he announced Cortana Analytics. -
Avoiding technical debtor’s prison with the right data platform
“Technical debtor’s prison” is a term I recently came across in a Forrester Research report, “CIOs’ Top Five Career-Ending Digital Transformation Challenges” by Bobby Cameron with Peter Burris, Rachael Klehm, and Rachel Birrell. -
Capturing the $1.6 trillion data dividend
Knowing your data means knowing your business. Your data platform is what gains you that knowledge. -
Download the new JDBC 4.2 for SQL Server Driver
We are pleased to announce availability of the Microsoft JDBC 4.
