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Best Practices April 20, 2017 7 min read

Graph Data Processing with SQL Server 2017 and Azure SQL Database

SQL Server is trusted by many customers for enterprise-grade, mission-critical workloads that store and process large volumes of data.

Announcements April 19, 2017 8 min read

Delivering AI with data: the next generation of the Microsoft data platform

This post was authored by Joseph Sirosh, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Data Group Leveraging intelligence out of the ever-increasing amounts of data can make the difference between being the next market disruptor or being relegated to the pages of history.

Best Practices April 12, 2017 7 min read

Five ways Microsoft helps you do amazing things with data in the cloud

Microsoft can help you do amazing things with your data in the cloud! Here are five examples to help you get started.

Thought Leadership February 10, 2017 5 min read

Microsoft’s SQL Platform continues to lead the market with advanced data security

This post was authored by Rohan Kumar, General Manager, Database Systems.

Best Practices February 8, 2017 3 min read

ODBC Driver 13.1 for Linux Released

This post is authored by Meet Bhagdev, Program Manager, Microsoft Hi all.

Best Practices December 10, 2015 5 min read

Speeding up Transactions with In-Memory OLTP in SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database

In-Memory OLTP, a performance feature in SQL Server since 2014, allows you to speed up transactional workloads up to 30X.

Updates November 18, 2015 2 min read

Always Encrypted in SQL Server & Azure SQL Database

This post was authored by Joseph Sirosh, Corporate Vice President of the Data Group at Microsoft.

Updates October 28, 2015 10 min read

SQL Server 2016 Community Technology Preview 3.0 is available

The SQL Server engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of SQL Server 2016 October public preview release CTP 3.

Updates August 27, 2015 2 min read

New Azure SQL Database offerings add capabilities to scale data up and out

Tiffany Wissner, Senior Director of Data Platform MarketingAt Microsoft we’re committed to meeting the needs of our customers by offering choices as they build cloud applications for scale and performance.

Updates April 29, 2015 4 min read

Microsoft Announces Azure SQL Database elastic database, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Azure Data Lake

In this mobile-first, cloud-first world, we’re creating and consuming data through new devices and services – and developers are building applications and analytics solutions at a rapid pace to take advantage of the new forms, types and sizes of data.

Updates January 29, 2015 4 min read

Azure is the Ideal Cloud for Your Database Workloads with Increased SQL Server Compatibility, Security, Automation, and Power

By Tiffany Wissner, Sr. Director for Data Platform Marketing Today we are announcing general availability for the latest update to Azure SQL Database, introduction of new SQL Database security features, more automation for SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machines and SQL Server on G-Series VMs.

Updates December 11, 2014 3 min read

Microsoft Strengthens Data Platform with SQL Database and Big Data Appliance Updates, Adds New Java SDK for its NoSQL Service

By Tiffany Wissner, Senior Director, Data Platform Making it easier for more of our customers to access our latest big data technologies, we are announcing updates to some of our flagship data platform products and services.

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