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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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How Fast is Project Codenamed “Hekaton” – It’s ‘Wicked Fast’!
Recently I posted a video about how the SQL Server Community was looking into emerging trends in BI and Database technologies – one of the key technologies mentioned in that video was in-memory. -
The Perfect Combination: SQL Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012
Delivering a Complete Data Platform for the Modern Datacenter with Cloud OS Today’s organizations need the ability to seamlessly build, deploy and manage applications and services across on-premise and cloud computing environments. -
The SQL Server Community Looks to Emerging Trends in BI and Database Technologies
At PASS Summit this year Ted Kummert outlined his views on accelerating insights in the new world of data. -
Crutchfield Turns to Microsoft and EMC to Help Transform SQL Server to the Private Cloud
When it comes to consumer electronics gear, audio and video enthusiasts rely on Crutchfield Corporation for excellent customer service and stellar product know-how. -
Oracle Surprised by the Present
I’d like to clear up some confusion from a recent Oracle-sponsored blog. -
Watch to Win on November 28th! Enter the ‘Big Data Webcast’ Challenge
Mark your calendars for November 28th to get an inside track on how to make smarter business decisions. -
PASS Summit 2012 Recap & the Milestones of SQL Server 2012
Last week marked the completion of a great week at PASS Summit 2012, the world’s largest technical training conference for SQL Server professionals and BI experts alike. -
CROSSMARK Uses SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse to Quickly Deliver Business Insights
With the growth of the consumer goods industry, sales and marketing campaigns have created large and complex databases that are hard to sift through without the right tools. -
Seamless insights on structured and unstructured data with SQL Server 2012 Parallel Data Warehouse
In the fast evolving new world of Big Data, you are being asked to answer a new set of questions that require immediate responses on data that has changed in volume, variety, complexity and velocity. -
Breakthrough performance with in-memory technologies
In a blog post earlier this year on “The coming database in-memory tipping point”, I mentioned that Microsoft was working on several in-memory database technologies. -
PASS Summit 2012: Accelerating Business through Data Insights
Hot on the heels of our big data announcements at the O’Reilly Strata + Hadoop World conference last month, my colleague, Ted Kummert, will take the stage at the Professional Association of SQL Server (PASS) Summit 2012 today in Seattle and make a number of announcements that further Microsoft’s vision for the modern data platform. -
Countdown to PASS Summit Series: Meet the Superheroes of SQL Server at the ‘I Made That’ Chalk Talks
PASS Summit 2012 has arrived in Seattle and our #SQLFamily reunion is under way! In this final post of our Countdown to PASS Summit Series, we invite you to meet and greet the developers who worked on SQL Server 2012, for a personal, behind-the-scenes look at SQL Server 2012 in the making! * * * […]
