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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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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. -
Guest Blog: Delivering Transformational Outcomes with Hortonworks Data Platform 2.3
Guest post by Rohit Bakhshi, Product Manager at Hortonworks Inc. -
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. -
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 optimal SQL Server configuration? At Ignite 2015 we released a tool for this. -
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 innovations in the release. -
Big data needs a big cloud
Brian Mitchell, Microsoft Senior Business Program Manager, took the stage at Ignite two weeks ago to discuss Planning Your Big Data Architecture on Azure. -
SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 1 Now Available for Download
Today, we are pleased to announce the availability of SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 1 (SP1). -
Top reasons why enterprises should choose Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Guest post by Tiffany Wissner, Senior Director, Data Platform Yesterday at Microsoft’s Ignite conference, we demoed the first sneak peek of Azure SQL Data Warehouse. -
SQL Server 2016 public preview coming this summer
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, announced SQL Server 2016, an intelligent platform for a mobile first, cloud first world. -
SQL Server 2005 support ends April 2016 – Here’s why that’s a good thing
Now’s the perfect time to deploy Microsoft SQL Server 2014. -
Microsoft Announces Azure SQL Database elastic database, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Azure Data Lake
In this mobile-first, cloud-first world, we’re creating and consuming data through new devices and services – and developers are building applications and analytics solutions at a rapid pace to take advantage of the new forms, types and sizes of data.
