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Updates September 18, 2014 1 min read

Microsoft Azure Offers HDInsight (Hadoop-as-a-service) to China

Microsoft today announced that Azure HDInsight is now available for all customers in China as a public preview, making it the first global cloud provider to have a publicly available cloud Hadoop offering in China.

Updates September 17, 2014 1 min read

New Optimized OLTP and Data Warehousing SQL Server Images on Azure

Microsoft Azure continues to offer customers more reasons why Azure Virtual Machines are an ideal place to develop, test and run your SQL Server applications.

Updates September 12, 2014 3 min read

New VM Images Optimized for Transactional and DW workloads in Azure VM Gallery

We are delighted to announce the release of new optimized SQL Server images in the Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines Gallery.

Updates September 10, 2014 2 min read

Azure SQL Database new service tiers now generally available

We are excited to announce that the new SQL Database service tiers, Basic, Standard, and Premium are now generally available.

Updates August 25, 2014 3 min read

SQL Server AlwaysOn Offering in Microsoft Azure Portal Gallery

We are excited to announce the release of a SQL Server AlwaysOn template in the Microsoft Azure Portal Gallery.

Updates August 21, 2014 3 min read

Azure previews fully-managed NoSQL database and search services

I am pleased to announce previews of new NoSQL database and search services and the evolution of our Hadoop-based service.

Best Practices July 30, 2014 6 min read

Transitioning from SMP to MPP, the why and the how

This blog post was authored by: Sahaj Saini, PM on the Microsoft Analytics Platform System (APS) team.

Best Practices July 24, 2014 1 min read

For proven in-memory technology without costly add-ons, migrate your Oracle databases to SQL Server 2014

Today, we are making available a new version of SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA), a free tool to help customers migrate their existing Oracle databases to SQL Server 2014.

Best Practices July 24, 2014 3 min read