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PASS Summit 2010 is upon us and today marks a big milestone for Microsoft in the information platform space. We’re excited to be announcing pivotal advancements to Microsoft SQL Server today from the event keynote, including the general availability of...

Today, Microsoft announced General Availability of SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse (formerly Project “Madison”), its first Appliance for high end Data Warehousing. For customers with the most demanding Data Warehouses, SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel...

PASS Attendees: now you’ve heard about the new features coming in SQL Server Code-Named “Denali” ( featured in Ted Kummert’s keynote ), don’t miss the sessions that explore Denali in depth:   Session Number Session Name BID274M Ad Hoc Reporting Revisited...

Florida-based Stein Mart , a large department store chain with 268 locations in the US, relies heavily on up-to-date data analysis and reporting for inventory management and promotional reviews . Unfortunately, the company’s data warehouse system, which...

How IT Can Drive Top-Line Growth By Joe Mullich As the world emerges from 24 months of economic turmoil, "companies are looking for technology, innovation, and reinvention of their business models," says Kevin Turner, Chief Operating Office...

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...

  Today February 14, 2011 Microsoft announced SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse 3.0 at TDWI World Conference in Las Vegas.   Fast Track Data Warehouse is a set of Reference Architectures that help customers and Partners reduce time to solution...

Microsoft announced today the release of two new resources that save customers time and money by taking advantage of interoperable Microsoft technologies. The new resources include an out-of-the-box connector between Microsoft Dynamics CRM (Online and...

The RTM version of Service Pack 4 (SP4) for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is now available for download, and includes SQL Server 2005 SP3 cumulative updates 1 to 11, customer requested fixes and the SQL Server 2005 SP4 database engine support for DAC operations...

This week, Microsoft launched a new tool for information on mission critical applications called Today’s Enterprise . Designed to help CIOs and IT decision makers share ideas and best practices and analyze their platform options, the site features case...

We are proud to announce the availability of the whitepaper “SQL PDO and Microsoft SQL Server”. While drivers for PHP to access SQL Server have been available for some time now, this new version is a milestone as it gives developers access not only to...

HP and Microsoft have partnered for more than year to jointly deliver optimized hardware and software solutions never seen before with SQL Server and a hardware vendor. HP and Microsoft engineers have worked together for months optimizing new solutions...

TechEd North America is upon us today and we couldn’t be more thrilled. Microsoft continues to evolve and invest in the Information Platform and today during the TechEd Foundational Session, Microsoft SQL Server: The Data and BI Platform for Today...

Hey, what’s this? Cisco makes servers? Yes, it is true. Cisco is in the Intel based server business and has been designing, manufacturing, and shipping our own server platform under the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) brand for about two years now...

We’re excited to join you in Orlando next week. This year’s Microsoft participation will be headlined by Doug Kennedy, VP, Microsoft Dynamics Partners and Dynamics Support Services. Doug is a 17-year veteran of Oracle, and has been with Microsoft for...

At this week’s Microsoft Management Summit conference (MMS), we are discussing how we are taking virtualization beyond OS and Infrastructure, with SQL Server as a key workload and an important element of a Private Cloud Platform. And why wouldn’t customers...

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...

Is SQL Server 2012 cloud ready for Microsoft partners? You bet! You already know that SQL Server 2012 CTP3 is helping customers bridge private to public cloud, but did you know that it is also forming a strong foundation for partner-hosted cloud solutions...

In a world of continuously growing amounts of data, data quality is becoming crucial. In order to clean your data and get to a high quality, you need to know “things” about it. We call this “ knowledge ”. Knowledge can be...

PASS Summit 2011 is just around the corner! PASS Summit is the largest SQL Server and BI conference in the world. It is planned and presented by the SQL Server Community for the SQL Server community. This year, there will be 174 training sessions spread...

Want to get a free full 3-day registration to the PASS Summit 2011 in Seattle, WA from Oct 11-14, 2011? Well, a tweet reply of 130 characters or less (on Twitter) is all it might take to win! We will post a question on our official Twitter account ( ...

We've wrapped up getting SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse on Dell hardware and proud to announce the Dell Parallel Data Warehouse Appliance that includes Dell PowerEdge R610 Servers and Dell PowerVault MD36xxF series high density storage. The Dell...

First in the industry solution ready for database consolidation out of the box We are very excited to be launching a new appliance to help customers consolidate thousands of databases, and at the same time enable IT to respond to business needs much...

Microsoft is once again delighted to be a premier sponsor of the PASS Summit in Seattle from Oct 11 – 14, 2011. We are committing our top resources to the most value-packed SQL Server and Business Intelligence event of the year. This event includes informative...