The SQL Server JumpIn! Camp was an incredible experience in accomplishments and learnings for the 17 invited key PHP developers and for the SQL Server engineers that in 4 days worked side-by-side to make their apps run on SQL Server, Denali, SQL...

In today’s world of information, the way we experience data can have enormous impact on the meaning of data. The first step in analyzing and exploring data is to decide how to explore it, shape it, format it, and create the visualizations that will give...

The world of data is changing with businesses facing an explosion in information volumes and the need to mine different data sources and data types. As a result, IT departments must adapt to provide value in this changing dynamic while still under pressure...

SQL Server 2008 R2 introduces several new features which significantly expand upon existing support for working in, managing, and leveraging a multi-instance SQL Server environment. This blog post will focus on three of the new areas to improve your consolidation...

Today, we are pleased to share that Salt Lake City has adopted an online solution powered by Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 to automate, expedite, and simplify the permit process for developers, architects, and engineers. In addition, they are reducing...

SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) is a highly scalable appliance for enterprise data warehousing that enables massive scalability, predictable performance, and complete BI solution at low cost. PDW ships with a web based management console for...

In this next post in our PASS Business Analytics Conference preview series, PASS Board Member Thomas LaRock shares his insights on the rapidly changing world of data and his recommendation on how you can keep up with the fast pace of growing technologies...

We’ve crossed the halfway point in The Fantastic 12 of 2012: Behind the Scenes Blog Series and would be delighted to get your feedback on the series as well as The Fantastic 12 of #SQL2012 Twitter Contest . Please share your feedback in the comments section...

We’re wrapping up last week’s Strata Santa Clara 2013 Conference after a flurry of activity! The week started off with Hortonworks announcing the release of the beta of the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) for Windows, the industry’s first 100% Open Source...

Over the past few months I've been giving a number of presentations on SQL Server 2008 and through these sessions I often get asked what my favorite feature in the release is. Well, I love all of my children equally and its very hard to just pick one...

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. These include supportability enhancements and issues that have been reported through...

We are pleased to see Microsoft acknowledged by Gartner as a Leader in the Business Intelligence Platforms Magic Quadrant. [1] I am happy to see this type of affirmation in our approach and strength of our technologies from Gartner. The high level of...

From the Microsoft Learning Team: Our purpose in Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 is to point out both the new and the improved in the latest version of SQL Server. Because this version is Release 2 (R2) of SQL Server 2008, you might think the...

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...

SQL Server Connections is happening next week (March 26 – March 30) in Las Vegas and Microsoft is honored to be a Platinum Sponsor of the event. It will be an action packed week starting with the pre-con workshops on Sunday and Monday, with Shawn Bice...

Unisys releases high-performance SQL Server 2008 R2 pre-packaged DW solution with up to 50 TB Solid State Disk technology Unisys is the first in the market to offer a pre-packaged SQL Server optimized solution based on the new SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise...

New benchmarks released by the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) ranks SQL Server 2008 #1 for price/performance, offering customers the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) for an enterprise-class database. The benchmark results demonstrate...

In case you missed it, SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio Team System 2008 and SQL Services were showcased at this year's DevConnections in Las Vegas, NV last week. Britt Johnston, Product Unit Manager for SQL Server along with demos from Gert Drapers (Visual...

The Worldwide Partner Conference 2011 came to a close last week where many great SQL Server presentations and live demos were showcased. The most notable was on day two during Satya Nadella, President of the Server & Tools Business, keynote where...

We are very proud to announce our Data Platform Partner of the year as HP! This marks a large milestone in HP’s partnership with Microsoft in the Application Platform area with the significant joint investment of $250MM in the HP-Microsoft Infrastructure...

Today BizTalk Server 2009 is available to MSDN customers. On May 1st it will be available to everyone in — Chinese simplified, Chinese traditional, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Spanish — on May 1. We made substantial investments...

We are happy to announce the availability of StockTrader 6, a new end-to-end reference application for Windows Azure and Windows Azure SQL Database . The sample application with full source code and Visual Studio solutions can be downloaded and installed...

Microsoft and AMD – Delivering Enhanced Value to SQL Server Customers Congratulations to Microsoft on the RTM of Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 R2 ! Matched with our new AMD Opteron™ 6000 Series platform we have a combination that delivers real value to...

Microsoft is pleased to announce Solidsoft as Application Integration Partner of the Year.  Solidsoft's Tell Us Once (TUO) - Change Reporting System (CRS) solution, which relies heavily on Microsoft BizTalk Server , delivers unsurpassed value to...

Donald Farmer—one of the best-known thinkers on the Microsoft SQL Server Business Intelligence team—will head up the launch of the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Community Tour and dig into the new release at a special full-day Microsoft R2 Launch Event...