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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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Day 3 at PASS Summit 2009
David Dewitt presented today’s keynote. He promised to be detailed and he delivered! The tweets were all about the great info he presented and if his presentation would be on the PASS Summit DVD. -
Day 2 at PASS Summit 2009
Tom Casey took the stage and dazzled the crowd with PowerPivot demos. -
Tom Casey PASS Twitterview
Today at the PASS 2009 Summit the spotlight was on business intelligence (BI) with a keynote from Tom Casey, general manager, SQL Server BI at Microsoft. -
Ted Kummert PASS Twitterview
Ted Kummert, senior vice president of the business platform division at Microsoft, spoke yesterday to a live audience of more than 2,000 attendees at the PASS 2009 Summit in Seattle, Washington. -
PASS Summit Day 1 Keynotes
From the blogger’s table at PASS: Bob Muglia got the energy going in the room (and the AC/DC helped). -
Enterprise scalability one focus for PASS 2009 Summit
This is a long post, but there is so much happening at PASS! During the opening keynote at the PASS 2009 Summit, Ted Kummert, senior vice president of the Business Platform Division, highlighted Microsoft’s continued commitment to mission critical workloads, announcing the upcoming delivery of the November CTP of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2. -
PASS Summit 2009 Has Started
Wayne Snyder kicked things off this morning and now Bob Muglia is on stage taking us through the history of SQL Server and how working together, we will solve business problems. -
Tom Casey ‘Twitterview’ on Wednesday!
Mark your calendar! Now we have Tom Casey, General Manager, SQL Server BI, doing a ‘Twitterview’ on Wednesday, November 4 after his PASS Summit keynote! Tom will answer 10 of your questions via our Twitter account (MS_SQL_Server). -
‘Twitterview’ with Ted Kummert Tomorrow!
You can ask Ted a question! Senior vice president of the Business Platform Division at Microsoft Corp. -
Windows Azure Platform Launch Update
In October 2008 at our Professional Developer Conference we opened the Community Technology Preview (CTP) for the Windows Azure platform (Windows Azure, SQL Azure and . -
Get Your Game On During PASS Summit 2009
Just announced: Microsoft SQL Server Appreciation Event. -
At SharePoint Conference, Project “Gemini” name officially revealed as Microsoft SQL Server PowerPivot for Excel
The Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009 got underway in Las Vegas this morning with keynotes from Steven Ballmer and Jeff Teper kicking off the conference.
