Blain Barton welcomes Jennifer Moser, Cindy Gross , Chuck Heinzelman and Thomas LaRock to the show as they discuss the upcoming PASS Business Analytics Conference . If BI and Big Data are important to you this is a must attend event. Tune in as they chat about why you should go and what...

First, make sure and get a Windows Azure 90-Day free subscription at: http://aka.ms/try-azure to begin working with SQL Server in the cloud. In this article, you can create a new VM and learn how to install SQL Server. You can then add disk images to the existing VM in order to split the data from the...

Independent consultant and Microsoft SQL Server MVP, Denny Cherry joins us for this Road to TechEd installment and in this episode we preview what’s on track for him and the Database Platform sessions. Tune in as we cover pre-conference SQL Server 2012 training as well as Denny’s session on how to optimize...

  Sr. Technical Writer for the SQL Server team, Jamie Westover joins us on today’s show as we talk about the day in the life a technical writer here at Microsoft. Tune in as we cover the basics from what writers do, how and where they publish their content as well as some recent projects she’s completed...

Each new version of Microsoft SQL Server contains a number of language enhancements for retrieval, summarizing, and management of data. SQL Server 2005 had new features for PIVOT, RANK, recursive queries, and more. SQL Server 2008 had GROUPING SETS, MERGE, and more. Transact-SQL in SQL Server 2012 offers...

Popular Past Event. Today we welcome Bruno Aziza, Worldwide Product Marketing Director for SQL Server here at Microsoft. Tune in as Bruno covers the upcoming SQL Server 2012 Virtual Launch Event, from what we can expect to see, hear and learn, how to sign-up as well as how you can interact with other...

Have you ever purchased or upgraded to a product because of one major, killer function? The new column store index in Microsoft SQL Server 2012 might be the one feature that convinces managers of SQL Server data warehouses to upgrade. Based on the VertiPaq technology that’s already found in Microsoft...

The Microsoft Virtual Academy “Dean” of students Alan Le Marquand is back for today’s show as he discusses the upcoming release of the Windows Server 8, SQL Server 2012 and System Center 2012 Operations Manager courses. Tune in as he gives us a preview of what we can expect for each as well as courses...

DBAs, run your queries! SQL PASS Summit 2011 is upon us! In today’s episode, we welcome @SQLGal Lara Rubbelke, Sr. Program Manager Jennifer Moser, SQL RockStar Thomas LaRock and Sr. Technology Specialist Buck Woody to the show. Tune in as we discuss all things SQL PASS --- from why you should attend...