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February 10, 2011 3 min read

New Ways to Drive Top-Line Growth

How IT Can Drive Top-Line Growth By Joe Mullich As the world emerges from 24 months of economic turmoil, “companies are looking for technology, innovation, and reinvention of their business models,” says Kevin Turner, Chief Operating Office at Microsoft.

February 3, 2011 1 min read

Department Store Chain Stein Mart Speeds Their Reporting, Saves $600,000 a Year in Tech Costs

Florida-based Stein Mart, a large department store chain with 268 locations in the US, relies heavily on up-to-date data analysis and reporting for inventory management and promotional reviews.

January 18, 2011 3 min read

HP Business Decision Appliance – A Closer Look at Backup and Availability Features

Today we announced the availability of the HP Business Decision Appliance.

January 18, 2011 4 min read

SQL Server Appliances – A Workload-based Appliance Design Philosophy

I run the Appliance Engineering team for SQL Server.

January 13, 2011 2 min read

Microsoft SQL Server Compact 4.0 is available for download and use with WebMatrix

The SQL Server Compact team is happy to announce that the next version of Microsoft SQL Server Compact 4.

December 28, 2010 3 min read

Business Intelligence Recap of 2010

Ah yes. The closing of another great year and the promise of a new year is just around the corner.

December 20, 2010 1 min read

SQL Server 2005 SP4 RTM Now Available for Download

The RTM version of Service Pack 4 (SP4) for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is now available for download, and includes SQL Server 2005 SP3 cumulative updates 1 to 11, customer requested fixes and the SQL Server 2005 SP4 database engine support for DAC operations.

December 2, 2010 5 min read

All about the SQL Server JumpIn! camp

The SQL Server JumpIn! Camp, was scheduled from Nov 16th thru 19th at an excellent facility not too far from Microsoft’s main campus with the purpose of bringing key PHP developers and SQL Server engineers together with the goal of supporting SQL Server and SQL Azure, with the last day reserved for Windows Azure and IIS.

November 15, 2010 1 min read

PHP Drivers for SQL Server Whitepaper: SQL PDO and Microsoft SQL Server

We are proud to announce the availability of the whitepaper “SQL PDO and Microsoft SQL Server”.

November 12, 2010 7 min read

Updated: Analysis Services – Roadmap for SQL Server Code Name “Denali” and Beyond

At the TechEd North America 2011 conference in Atlanta this week, the SQL Server team is providing details on the SQL Server “Denali” release, including the upcoming public availability of a Community Technology Preview (CTP) this summer.

November 11, 2010 2 min read

More Details on Microsoft code-named “Atlanta” – a configuration assessment service for SQL Server

It’s day 3 at the Annual PASS Summit in Seattle! The last two days have brought attendees a lot of exciting news about what’s coming soon for SQL Server customers, including the introduction of Microsoft code-named “Atlanta” during Ted Kummert’s keynote on Tuesday.

November 10, 2010 2 min read

Microsoft Dives Deeper into SQL Server code-named “Denali” – the next version of SQL Server

This is an exciting time for the SQL Server Team.

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