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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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Leading Research Firm Gartner, Inc. Publishes Two Important Notes on Microsoft PowerPivot
If you haven’t already tried out PowerPivot, or if you need a little help educating your IT department on SQL Server 2008 R2, Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010, check out these two reports from leading research firm, Gartner, Inc. -
PivotViewer extension for SQL Server Reporting Services
Microsoft has recently released a new Silverlight control called PivotViewer. -
PowerPivot & Analysis Services – The Value of Both
Guest partner post by Shimon Shlevich, Product Manager at Panorama Software As Microsoft PowerPivot is gaining more popularity and exposure, BI professionals ask more and more questions about PowerPivot’s role in the organization in trying to understand what value the new in-memory BI solution from Microsoft brings, along with the benefits and the limitations of […] -
Microsoft Application Platform at the Microsoft World Partner Conference
Written by Eugene Saburi, Business Platform GM, Microsoft At this year’s World Partner Conference (WPC) I’m leading a breakout session on how partners can achieve competitive advantage by investing in the Microsoft Application Platform. -
SQL Server 2008 SP2 CTP is now available for public testing
SQL Server 2008 SP2 CTP contains all the cumulative updates for SQL Server 2008, and fixes to issues that have been reported through our customer feedback platforms. -
How often are patients coming back? A healthy PowerPivot study
As was recently observed by web analytics and download feedback, there is a lot of interest in PowerPivot within the Healthcare industry. -
SYSPREP in SQL Server 2008 R2
Guest blogger: John S. Parker – NetApp Microsoft Alliance Engineering Team With Microsoft’s new release of SQL Server, there are a couple of things that I feel would be great to talk about. -
Microsoft’s Business Intelligence 2010 Conference today in New Orleans
Ted Kummert, Senior Vice President for the Business Platform Division, kicked off the start of Microsoft’s Business Intelligence 2010 Conference today in New Orleans. -
Empower Users with Self Service BI
Written by Ashvini Sharma, Principal Program Manager Lead, Microsoft Corp. -
Join us and learn about SQL Server 2008 R2 in Santa Clara on May 25th or New York on May 27th!
Microsoft and PASS would like to invite you to an exclusive Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 event to come and discover powerful new capabilities that enable organizations to scale operations with confidence, boost productivity and deliver business insight that empowers end-users. -
Guest Blogger: Adrian Simays, Technical Architect, EMC Microsoft Alliance
While there are several exciting new features included in SQL Server 2008 R2 including PowerPivot for Sharepoint and Excel, Master Data Services for data consistency and StreamInsight for processing high volumes of event stream data, what I am most excited about isn’t a core new feature but one of two new editions that are being […] -
SQL Server 2008 R2 PowerPivot for Excel and SharePoint is here; volume licensing downloads available today
We’re happy to announce volume licensing downloads for SQL Server 2008 R2 are available today in all languages, including the public availability of the much anticipated PowerPivot functionality, delivering on the promise of managed self-service BI.
