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SQL Server 2016 end of support is here: Plan your next steps
See what changes as SQL Server 2016 reaches end of support.
Advancing agentic AI with Microsoft databases across a unified data estate
Built on a consistent Microsoft SQL foundation from on premises to the cloud, Azure SQL brings AI capabilities directly into your database experience.
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Day 3: PASS Business Analytics Conference, Analytics in Action
It’s the final day of the PASS Business Analytics Conference. -
Day 2: PASS Business Analytics Conference, New 3D Mapping Analytics Tool for Excel
Today at the PASS Business Analytics Conference, Microsoft technical fellow Amir Netz and partner manager Kamal Hathi took to the stage to demonstrate how people experience insights. -
Day 1: PASS Business Analytics Conference, The Art of Analytics
For the latest and greatest on business intelligence and business analytics, look no further than the PASS Business Analytics Conference, which kicks off today in Chicago. -
SQL Server 2012 Common Criteria Certification
In February 2013 Microsoft received the Common Criteria (CC) certificate for SQL Server 2012 SP1 Enterprise Edition (English) x64 (Version 11. -
Enter Our Daily Sweepstakes to Celebrate the Anniversary of SQL Server 2012!
This month, we are celebrating the one year anniversary of SQL Server 2012, and we’d like to give a little shout out to our community to say, “Happy anniversary!” We can hardly believe that it was just one year ago that SQL Server 2012 was released to manufacturing. -
Gartner BI Summit 2013: Bringing Hadoop to the Enterprise
Gartner’s annual Business Intelligence & Analytics Summit kicked off earlier today where we are focused on sharing our perspective and solutions with customers, partners and industry leaders interested in big data and business intelligence. -
Navistar Uses Microsoft Big Data Solution to Determine Optimal Pricing Structure
The challenge of running a business is becoming more complex each day. -
PASS BAC Preview Series: Looking for Big Data Value in All the Wrong Places
In this guest post from Hyoun Park, PASS Business Analytics Conference (PASS BAC) speaker, we get an interesting twist on the challenge of Big Data and how to stop looking for solutions in all the wrong ways and all the wrong places. -
PASS BAC Preview Series: Business Analytics Defined
The PASS Business Analytics Conference (PASSBAC) Preview Series continues with more great insights from PASS Board Member, Douglas McDowell, who gives unique perspective on what PASSBAC is and how this conference was developed to address the expanding technical education needs of its business community. -
Look Who’s Spending Spring Break at the PASS Business Analytics Conference
The SQL Server community continues to wow us with your ways! Last week during the “Spend Spring Break at the PASS Business Analytics Conference” Challenge, we received an enormous number of great responses to our challenge question, “Tell us how a trip to #passbac would help you with your work?” What can we say, except […] -
Go ‘From Data to Insights’ on March 26th in an Exclusive Webcast from Microsoft and The Economist
Big data brings big challenges, but also opportunities–for people and companies to gain insight, spot trends and make decisions in ways never before thought possible. -
Make Yourself More Marketable at Certified Career Day
Did you know that 40% of workers believe that certification helped them find a job or led to a promotion? Certification has never been more critical for staying on top of future trends, including big data, in-memory technologies and cloud based & hybrid architectures—and, to keep you from saying these words: “It can’t be done.
