February, 2010

Microsoft has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems (Gartner, Inc., January 28, 2010). The Magic Quadrants depict Gartner's analysis of how Data Warehouse (DW) DBMS vendors measure...

Allow me to introduce myself: I’m Roger Doherty, Sr. Technical Evangelist for SQL Server. I joined Microsoft in 1991 from Sybase and I’ve evangelized every SQL Server release since the Microsoft / Ashton-Tate / Sybase SQL Server version 1.0 from 1989...

The SQL Server team has been very busy building SQL Server 2008 R2 and we are extremely excited for the upcoming launch. The feedback from customers who have downloaded and tested a Community Technology Preview (CTP) has been invaluable. We believe that...

TDWI World Conference in Las Vegas is off to a great start. Since Sunday February 21 Data Warehouse and BI professionals have flocked to Las Vegas for the latest and greatest in the industry. Attendance is up again after a very bleak conference season...

The team is very happy to announce the completion of the first technology preview for SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse! Our new, massively scalable data warehousing solution is unique because it offers hardware flexibility with configurations...

My name is Brian Swan. I’m a fan of both PHP and Microsoft technologies, and I work in the SQL Server organization here at Microsoft as a content publisher. I’ve started a new blog, http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_swan , to follow Microsoft’s endeavors into...