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A new tool is now available for those in the need of monitoring the performance of software that is running on SQL Azure, namely System Center Monitoring Pack for SQL Azure.
Through the new pack, all the tools needed for verifying the SQL Azure server and database connectivity and for checking on their health info... |
17 February 2012
10:43 GMT |
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Today, Microsoft made available for download the Codename Trust Services SDK and Management Tool, for those interested in offering increased protection for sensitive data. With this utility, you should be able to easily encrypt stored content.
Offering support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, the new tool... |
3 February 2012
10:13 GMT |
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In line with the various enhancements it announced for Windows Azure and SQL Azure, Microsoft made available for download a new application aimed at offering new ways for keeping data organized. We’re referring here to the SQL Azure Labs Codename "Data Explorer" Client, which was made available for download ... |
14 December 2011
17:31 GMT |
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In addition to announcing a series of changes performed to the Windows Azure website, complemented by the availability of new developer tools, Microsoft also announced the availability of the SQL Azure Q4 Service Release.
Officially introduced back in October at the PASS Summit, the SQL Azure Q4 Service Release br... |
13 December 2011
16:21 GMT |
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Microsoft has yet to give green light to the testing program for codename Data Explorer, but the company released a new video teasing the capabilities of the Windows Azure service.
Hosted under SQL Azure Labs, Microsoft codename Data Explorer comes with the promise of allowing customers to gain new insights from ... |
5 November 2011
04:28 GMT |
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Microsoft Codename "Social Analytics" Lab has made its debut, a project from the Redmond company designed as a response to the increasing need to tap social web data for business decisions. Currently hosted under SQL Azure Labs, Microsoft designed Codename "Social Analytics" as a Cloud service set up to bridge the ... |
26 October 2011
03:21 GMT |
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Microsoft made another step forward when it comes to offering comprehensive business intelligence capabilities in the Cloud to customers leveraging Windows Azure.
The Redmond company announced the availability of a new testing milestone of SQL Azure Reporting. Early adopters that tested the previous Community Tec... |
14 October 2011
05:55 GMT |
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Customers leveraging the latest edition of Visual Studio have reported that they encountered issues when attempting to publish their projects to Microsoft’s Cloud data platform.
Microsoft confirmed the problems, and released an update to Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 in response to user feedback.
Upd... |
2 September 2011
03:50 GMT |
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The second Community Technology Preview of the next version of Microsoft’s JDBC Driver for SQL Server is now available for download. Offered through the Microsoft Download Center as usual, Microsoft JDBC Driver 4.0 for SQL Server CTP2 can be tested by developers free of charge. Devs need to be aware that just... |
13 July 2011
06:38 GMT |
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Microsoft Cloud adopters can now get insight into SQL Azure performance and elasticity by downloading free resources from the company. The first edition of the Microsoft SQL Azure Performance and Elasticity Guide is available through the software giant’s Download Center to all customers looking to get th... |
1 July 2011
04:18 GMT |
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Microsoft is offering Cloud customers the chance to help with the development of federations technology in SQL Azure. The SQL Azure Federations Product Evaluation Program Nomination survey is already live on Microsoft Connect, with the software giant accepting participant applications. The evaluation program is sche... |
13 May 2011
05:41 GMT |
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Customers leveraging Microsoft’s Cloud technologies can turn to a tool provided by the company in order to diagnose SQL Server issues. The Microsoft CSS SQL Azure Diagnostics has been available for quite a while now, and can be downloaded free of charge via this link.Developed by Microsoft Customer Service and... |
11 May 2011
11:29 GMT |
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Customers looking to make the jump to Microsoft’s on-premise and Cloud data platforms can access version 5.0 of the SQL Server Migration Assistant to ease the migration process from their existing solution. SQL Server Migration Assistant 5.0 comes with support for Sybase, Oracle, MySQL and Microsoft Access, si... |
4 May 2011
05:50 GMT |
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Microsoft will introduce an upcoming development milestone of its Cloud and on-premise data platforms synchronization solution in mid-2011. The Redmond company did not provide a specific availability deadline, but it did reveal that early adopters will be able to start testing the third Community Technology Preview ... |
25 March 2011
06:15 GMT |
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Want to get a quick overview of Microsoft’s relational Cloud database service (RDBMS)? Well, Steve Yi, Director of Product Management for SQL Azure made available the SQL Azure at a Glance video which you will find embedded below. While the Redmond company is offering a variety of resources on its Cloud data... |
22 March 2011
07:27 GMT |
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Although it’s already hard at work putting together version 4.0 of the JDBC Driver for SQL Server, Microsoft has just made available for download an update to v3.0. A fresh release of JDBC Driver 3.0 for SQL Server went live on the Microsoft Download Center on February 17th, 2010, adding a small twist to ... |
18 February 2011
11:11 GMT |
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Moving to the Cloud is bound to imply adapting existing software investments to run on hosted servers for some customers, at least. As far as its own Cloud is concerned, Microsoft has taken the necessary steps to ensure that on-premise applications can be tailored to Windows Azure. The company is even offering ... |
18 January 2011
05:38 GMT |
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Customers running Microsoft’s data platform both in the Cloud and on-premise are now able to apply updates from the Redmond company. The software giant has refreshed both SQL Azure, Azure Services Platform’s cloud computing database services, and SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM the offering designed for customers... |
25 October 2010
05:48 GMT |
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Earlier this week Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect shared a piece of Windows history, offering the public a peak at the press kit which accompanied the launch of version 1.0 of the company’s proprietary operating system. 1985 was a pivotal year for Microsoft and for its Window platform, and now, with... |
16 October 2010
06:57 GMT |
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Microsoft has released a new update to its data platform in the Cloud, introducing fresh features and improving on existing capabilities. SQL Azure Service Update 4 is available to customers leveraging the software giant’s Cloud platform as of August 24th, 2010. One of the most important new features of the r... |
25 August 2010
07:01 GMT |
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Microsoft has made the third Community Technology Preview of Codename “Dallas” available to early adopters for testing. It was Bob Muglia, Microsoft President, Server and Tools Business who announced back in July, while delivering the keynote address to the Worldwide Partner Conference that the Redm... |
12 August 2010
04:57 GMT |
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A new promotion from Microsoft is designed to allow a number of 1,500 developers to test drive its Cloud platform free of charge for a whole month. Via the Windows Azure One Month Pass USA devs in the United States can effectively request a Windows Azure one month pass, that will allow them to use Windows Azure and S... |
5 August 2010
07:47 GMT |
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Microsoft has already provided adopters of its Cloud offerings with the necessary tools to synchronize SQL Azure with SQL Server. Now the Redmond company is also offering Windows Azure customers a guide focused on detailing the best practices on synchronizing its Cloud database service with the on-premise variant of ... |
4 August 2010
04:07 GMT |
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Microsoft had promised to offer customers of its Cloud platform a new tool designed to streamline the building and administration of SQL Azure databases even before Windows Azure was commercially available. The company previewed the project codenamed “Houston” in November 2009, and then offered updates on... |
22 July 2010
05:24 GMT |
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A free resource available for download from Microsoft is designed to help customers get started with SQL Azure. Customers taking advantage of the “Getting Started with SQL Azure” document will be able to tap a document containing a range of guidelines illustrating scenarios such as SQL Azure sign up, but ... |
5 July 2010
08:00 GMT |
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In just a couple of weeks, customers that are currently leveraging Microsoft’s Cloud platform will be able to take advantage of two new editions of the company’s Cloud-based relational database service. Come June 28, 2010, the Redmond company will make available the SQL Azure 50 GB Business Edition Databa... |
15 June 2010
07:05 GMT |
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With the Windows Azure platform commercially available since the start of 2010, Microsoft customers have a new offering for their database-related needs from the company, in addition to the now-traditional SQL Server, namely SQL Azure. Of course, as many companies explore scenarios in which they embrace the Cloud, mo... |
12 May 2010
07:52 GMT |
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New features introduced to Microsoft’ Cloud data platform make it easier for customers to migrate away from on-premise deployments, according to David Robinson, SQL Azure senior program manager. In this regard, SQL Azure now features Multiple Active Results Sets, ALTER rename and Application and Multi-server ma... |
20 April 2010
05:57 GMT |
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Microsoft has expanded the availability of its Cloud operating system to 20 new markets worldwide. As of today, April 12, 2010, the Windows Azure platform is available to customers in a total of 41 countries and regions globally. Microsoft Windows Azure includes components such as Windows Azure, SQL Azure, and Window... |
12 April 2010
03:53 GMT |
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Microsoft introduced the first Service Update for its Cloud-based data platform on February 17th, 2010, and customers embracing Windows Azure should expect more refreshes to the components of the Cloud platform, although there’s no telling at which rate they will be delivered. Service Update 1 for SQL Azure was... |
18 February 2010
05:28 GMT |
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As of February 1st, 2010, Microsoft’s Cloud platform is generally available in no less than 21 countries around the world. Windows Azure graduated from Community Technology Preview (CTP) to production release at the start of January 2010, but only as of January 2nd, 2010, Microsoft started billing customers lev... |
2 February 2010
05:08 GMT |
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Microsoft has provided a free tool for download designed to simplify leveraging Sync Framework and SQL Azure together. Available via the Microsoft Download Center, the Microsoft Sync Framework Power Pack for SQL Azure November CTP (32-bit) is essentially a plug-in for Visual Studio 2008 Professional SP1 and the tool ... |
8 January 2010
05:04 GMT |
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Aiming to drive commitment and support of actions against climate change, Microsoft unveiled a new Cloud-based application during the COP 15 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, today, December 14th. Built in partnership with the European Environment Agency (EEA), the Environmental Atlas of Europe ... |
14 December 2009
09:55 GMT |
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At the Professional Developers Conference 2009, in Los Angeles, earlier this month, Microsoft announced the official launch of Windows Azure. The Redmond company’s Cloud platform is composed of the Windows Azure operating system delivered as a service and SQL Azure, as Microsoft describes it a fully relational ... |
30 November 2009
04:30 GMT |
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One of the major concerns customers have when it comes down to transitioning from on-premise solution to hosted services is availability. Let’s be clear on this, not even on-premise solutions have 100% uptime. But running all solutions on local servers or in their own database gives customers a stronger feeling... |
23 November 2009
08:35 GMT |
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One year after Microsoft first unveiled its Cloud operating system to the world, Windows Azure has been officially launched. The Professional Developers Conference 2009 in Los Angeles acted as the stage for the Redmond company to release, what it referred to as critical pieces of its Cloud services strategy, namely t... |
18 November 2009
07:09 GMT |
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Microsoft announced the rebranding of SQL Services as SQL Azure in the first half of July 2009, a move that was accompanied by the transition of the SQL Data Services under the Microsoft SQL Azure Database brand. It wasn’t until mid-August 2009 that SQL Azure went live, with Microsoft starting to hand out invit... |
1 September 2009
09:33 GMT |
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Earlier today I told you that the first Community Technology Preview of SQL Azure went live on August 18th, 2009. Now the obvious question is how you will manage to get yourselves invited to test drive the CTP development milestone. And the answer is rather simple. Effectively, all that you have to do is sign up for ... |
19 August 2009
09:13 GMT |
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Microsoft is making the first development milestone of SQL Azure available to customers. Essentially, the Redmond company announced that the first Community Technology Preview for its relational database management system (RDBMS) for the Cloud went live as of August 18th, 2009. With SQL Azure, the software giant is l... |
19 August 2009
05:47 GMT |
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At the end of October 2008, Microsoft announced its first Cloud-based operating system, labeled Windows Azure. At that time the Redmond company indicated that the new platform was planned to go live in the second half of 2009. With the release deadline set for Professional Developer Conference 2009 in November approa... |
14 July 2009
10:56 GMT |
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Say goodbye to the Microsoft SQL Services and hello to SQL Azure. No, not the services themselves, just the brands. The Redmond company announced that it had rebranded SQL Services as SQL Azure. At the same time, in line with SQL Services being transitioned under the Azure umbrella brand, the SQL Data Services have a... |
9 July 2009
06:04 GMT |
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