New Features in SQL Azure
Written by Zane Adam from the SQL Azure Team As part of our continued commitment to provide regular and frequent updates to SQL Azure, I am pleased to announce Service Update 4 (SU4).
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SQL Server for the Oracle DBA – Free DVDs at OpenWorld
At the COLLABORATE Oracle user group conference back in April, we had a number of Oracle DBAs and developers ask us about SQL Server training resources. -
Microsoft announces SQL Server Migration Assistant for MySQL
Migrate from MySQL to SQL Azure or SQL Server with ease! Microsoft announced today the release of the first version of SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) for MySQL! Along with this release, Microsoft refreshed the existing SSMA family of products for Oracle, Sybase and Access with the latest v4. -
Microsoft Services Launches New Offerings for Mission Critical Customers
Customers running mission critical solutions have asked Microsoft to provide higher levels of service and support for their environments, given the potential negative impact to their business if an incident or outage occurs to their mission critical solution. -
Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server 2.0 released!!
Microsoft is announcing an important interoperability milestone: the release of the Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server 2. -
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.
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