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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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Go ‘From Data to Insights’ on March 26th in an Exclusive Webcast from Microsoft and The Economist
Big data brings big challenges, but also opportunities–for people and companies to gain insight, spot trends and make decisions in ways never before thought possible. -
Make Yourself More Marketable at Certified Career Day
Did you know that 40% of workers believe that certification helped them find a job or led to a promotion? Certification has never been more critical for staying on top of future trends, including big data, in-memory technologies and cloud based & hybrid architectures—and, to keep you from saying these words: “It can’t be done. -
Microsoft on Big Data at Strata Santa Clara 2013
We’re wrapping up last week’s Strata Santa Clara 2013 Conference after a flurry of activity! The week started off with Hortonworks announcing the release of the beta of the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) for Windows, the industry’s first 100% Open Source Apache Hadoop-based distribution for Windows. -
Microsoft’s Database Research Lab Conceives PolyBase to Easily Join Relational Data With Data From Hadoop
Complementing Microsoft’s overall Big Data strategy, PolyBase is a breakthrough new technology on the data processing engine in SQL Server 2012 Parallel Data Warehouse Appliance designed as the simplest way to combine non-relational data and traditional relational data in your analysis. -
Spend Spring Break at the PASS Business Analytics Conference 2013: Tweet for a Chance to Win a Ticket!
The world of data is changing at a rapid pace, and you can prepare yourself to tackle the challenges by attending the first annual PASS Business Analytics Conference (PASS BAC), to be held April 10-12, 2013 in Chicago, IL. -
O’Reilly Strata: Busting Big Data Adoption Myths with Halo 4–Part 3
Structured or unstructured – what to store? How about all of it? I spoke at the O’Reilly Strata Conference last year and am back again this year to share thoughts about big data. -
O’Reilly Strata: Busting Big Data Adoption Myths–Part 2
If concerns about having the right skillsets on staff are stopping you from trying big data, Microsoft’s BI tools may hold the key to busting down those barriers. -
O’Reilly Strata: Busting Big Data Adoption Myths–Part 1
Think infrastructure and scalability will impede your path to big data analytics? Windows Azure HDInsight is your big data solution. -
Microsoft Talks Big Data at O’Reilly® Strata
For those of you into big data, O’Reilly’s® Strata Conference in Santa Clara, CA is the place to be. -
Hortonworks and Microsoft Bring the Hortonworks Data Platform to Windows
Today, Hortonworks released the beta for the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) for Windows, the industry’s first 100% Open Source Apache Hadoop-based distribution for Windows. -
PASS BAC Preview Series: Self-Service BI from Excel 2013
In today’s world of information, the way we experience data can have enormous impact on the meaning of data. -
PASS BAC Preview Series: The Evolving World of Data
In this next post in our PASS Business Analytics Conference preview series, PASS Board Member Thomas LaRock shares his insights on the rapidly changing world of data and his recommendation on how you can keep up with the fast pace of growing technologies in this business area.
