• Five Things to Know About SQL Server’s In-Memory Technology

    Posted 2 months ago
    by SQL Server Team}
    Last week was an exciting week for the SQL Server team, as one of our favorite events happened – PASS Summit . If you attended PASS, you probably heard a ton about the latest version of SQL Server 2014. One of the key drivers of SQL 2014’s...

  • Available Now: Preview Release of the SQL Server PHP Driver

    Posted 2 months ago
    by SQL Server Team}
    Today we are pleased to announce the availability of a community technology preview release of the SQL Server Driver for PHP! Download the preview driver today here . This release will allow developers who use the PHP scripting language version 5.5...

  • Microsoft announces major update to Azure SQL Database, adds free tier to Azure Machine Learning

    Posted 2 months ago
    by T.K. Ranga Rengarajan}
    This morning at the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) Summit , we celebrated SQL Server 2014’s strong momentum and introduced new services that further expand Microsoft’s big data platform. We announced a major update coming to...

  • The Ins and Outs of Azure Data Factory – Orchestration and Management of Diverse Data

    Posted 3 months ago
    by SQL Server Team}
    Yesterday at TechEd Europe 2014 , Microsoft announced the preview of Azure Data Factory . This post will give you the ins and outs of this new service. What is Azure Data Factory? Azure Data Factory is a fully managed service that does information...

  • The Ins and Outs of Azure Stream Analytics – Real-Time Event Processing

    Posted 3 months ago
    by SQL Server Team}
    Yesterday at TechEd Europe 2014 , Microsoft announced the preview of Azure Stream Analytics . This post will give you the ins and outs of this new service. What is Azure Stream Analytics? Azure Stream Analytics is a cost effective event processing...