Today we announced the availability of the HP Business Decision Appliance . This is the culmination of many months of engineering work between HP and Microsoft to develop a software/hardware solution to enable easy access to self-service business intelligence...

I run the Appliance Engineering team for SQL Server.  One of the questions I get asked most often about building appliances, is how do we go about designing a new appliance.   We don’t start with a cool piece of hardware and figure out...

The SQL Server Compact team is happy to announce that the next version of Microsoft SQL Server Compact 4.0 has been released, and is available for download and for use in the production systems at the location below: http://www.microsoft.com/sql/compact...