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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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Congrats to Our #pass24HOP Challenge Winners!
Last week we enjoyed some fantastic sessions from PASS Business Analytics Conference speakers during the 24 Hours of PASS Business Analytics event! In addition to all the great content, we had a little fun during the #pass24HOP Challenge that we played alongside with you on Twitter! Near the end of each session, we asked you […] -
Windows Azure HDInsight Supporting Hadoop 2.2 in Public Preview
Earlier this week, we announced at the O’Reilly Strata Conference that Windows Azure HDInsight now supports Hadoop 2. -
Making Big Data Work for Everyone
This has been a really exciting week for the Microsoft data platform. -
Differential Database Backup with Memory-Optimized Tables
This blog describes how differential database backup is taken on database with one or more memory-optimized tables. -
Getting Trained on Microsoft’s Expanding Data Platform
With data volumes exploding, having the right technology to find insights from your data is critical to long term success. -
Database Backup with Memory-Optimized Tables
The memory-optimized tables are backed up as part of regular database backups so you don’t need to do anything special to manage backups on databases with memory-optimized tables. -
Microsoft to Join the Big Data Conversation as an Elite Sponsor at Strata, Santa Clara, CA
On February 11-13, Microsoft will join 2,700 of the world’s leading big data scientists, CIOs and executives at the Strata conference in Santa Clara, CA. -
In-Memory OLTP Index Troubleshooting, Part II
With the In-Memory OLTP feature in SQL Server 2014 we introduce two new types of indexes for memory-optimized tables: the memory-optimized NONCLUSTERED indexes, and the memory-optimized HASH indexes. -
What Drives Microsoft’s Data Platform Vision?
FEATURED POST BY: Quentin Clark, Corporate Vice President, The Data Platform Group, Microsoft Corporation If you follow Microsoft’s data platform work, you have probably observed some changes over the last year or so in our product approach and in how we talk about our products. -
New Data Science – What’s Next?
While every organization is different, their “big data” is often very similar. -
Join the 2014 24 Hours of PASS Business Analytics Challenge and You Could Win a Free Ticket!
Calling all data junkies and business analysts! Play along with @SQLServer on Twitter, February 5th during the 24 Hours of PASS, Business Analytics Edition for your chance to win a cool Microsoft T-shirt and a ticket to the 2014 PASS Business Analytics Conference in San Jose, CA! Beginning at 8 am PT on February 5th, […] -
State Transition of Checkpoint Files in Databases with Memory-Optimized Tables
In the previous blog Merge Operations, we described that how a CFP transitions across various stages in its life cycle.
