If you are planning to attend the Microsoft World Partner Conference next week in Los Angeles, we want to highlight some of the keynotes and sessions to attend to learn how SQL Server and Microsoft Business Intelligence can help you grow your business...

  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...

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...

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...

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...

As part of Microsoft’s commitment to participate in and contribute to the PHP community we’re excited to be working together with some of the key PHP applications in the world. The first SQL Server JumpIn! camp was a huge success and we expect...

Today we announced the Microsoft Data Warehouse appliance from HP called the HP Business Data Warehouse (BDW). This is the third SQL Server appliance, following the releases earlier this year of the HP Enterprise Data Warehouse and the HP Business Decision...

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...

We’re pleased to share that Direct Edge, the United States’ fourth largest stock exchange, has chosen SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) to help manage the increasing volume of data acquired daily through its trading platforms...

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...

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...

What kind of PowerPivot nerd are you? A Numbers Ninja? A Data Mining Wizard? Find out by taking our Nerdtastic PowerPivot Quiz on Facebook. Besides learning if you’re the nerdiest PowerPivot user of them all, you’ll automatically be entered to win an...

      Migrate from Sybase, Oracle, MySQL and Microsoft Access to SQL Azure and SQL Server with ease! Microsoft announced today the release of SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) v5.0, a family of products to further simplify...

At Microsoft we are constantly striving to make the computing environment as secure as possible. Part of our commitment to security involves providing products that meet widely-recognized certification requirements. We are happy to announce that Microsoft...

SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 CTP contains cumulative updates 1-6 for SQL Server 2008 R2, and fixes to issues that have been reported through our customer feedback platforms.  These include supportability enhancements and issues that have been reported...

We have looked high and low for anything with the SQL Server logo and have managed to pull together some stuff to give away to our Twitter followers! We will ask 12 questions about SQL Server on our official Twitter channel at approximately 10:00AM PDT...

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 the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) Summit last November, Microsoft announced System Center codename “Atlanta.”   Since then, you have told us how excited you are about this new service; a cloud-based service that enables IT pros...

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...

There are some important support changes coming up for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005. We want to make sure you know what’s happening so you can avoid the risk of running unsupported products and choose the right version of SQL Server for...

With the confluence of easily accessible data sources and powerful and available business intelligence and predictive analytic tools, we’ve entered a new era where data itself has become the platform for new application development.   Taking advantage...

The Microsoft BI team has seen consistent demand from our customers for industry-specific solutions that utilize the Microsoft Business Intelligence platform stack. These customers like the overall MS BI story – they see that it delivers familiar user...

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...

  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...

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...