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An updated version of the System Center monitoring pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse Appliance is now available for download.
Released as version 1.0.774.0, the updated pack brings along a series of fixes to some of the issues that have been previously spotted.
The new tool release bri... |
2 February 2012
10:05 GMT |
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Microsoft has made available for download new versions of four of its SQL Server Migration Assistants that professionals can use to migrate to SQL Server. With these tools, the migration to Microsoft’s SQL Server can be automated. The free software offers support for the migration of assessment analysis, sche... |
30 January 2012
07:16 GMT |
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Microsoft is preparing the launch of its SQL Server 2012, and it appears that March 7th has been selected as the release date for the new product.
The company has just announced an online event on March 7th, 2012, set to stand for the virtual launch of SQL Server 2012.
Microsoft partners will be present at the e... |
24 January 2012
05:08 GMT |
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Last year, Microsoft has made a series of changes to the Windows Azure and SQL Server offerings, and has now delivered documentation on the new products. Developers interested in coming up with products for the SQL Server can now download the SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit to get started. The training ki... |
19 January 2012
11:51 GMT |
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New software to help Microsoft SQL Server customers benefit from a better experience when their infrastructure includes Linux-based computers is now available for download.We’re referring here to the Microsoft SQL Server ODBC Driver for Linux that was just released in a Community Technology Preview. With it, k... |
28 December 2011
12:34 GMT |
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Microsoft has just reached a new milestone in the evolution of its SQL Server 2012 with the availability of an RC0 flavor, bringing customers and partners one step closer to the full value of SQL Server 2012. The new RC0 version of SQL Server 2012 replaces the Community Technology Preview (CTP) 3 that was made avai... |
18 November 2011
07:02 GMT |
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SQL Server codenamed Denali is now in the final stages of the development process with early adopters testing the third Community Technology Preview release for quite some time now.
Microsoft is gearing up to release the next iteration of its data platform in the first half of 2012, under the commercial moniker SQL... |
31 October 2011
06:09 GMT |
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Microsoft is gearing up to release SQL Server 2012 in the first half of 2012, and it is already providing developers with resources designed to help them build upon the next-generation data platform.
The SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit is now available for download from the Redmond company, free of charge.... |
13 October 2011
09:41 GMT |
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SQL Server 2012 is right on track to reach commercial availability in the first half of 2012, Microsoft confirmed officially at the PASS Summit 2011 on October 12, 2011. The event also brought with it the confirmation of SQL Server 2012 as the official moniker for the product formerly code-named “Denali,&rdqu... |
13 October 2011
05:44 GMT |
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The release date for the next major iteration of SQL Server will be announced soon, according to Microsoft’s N. Raja.
The Redmond company has yet to announce the release to manufacturing deadline or the general availability date for its next iteration of the data platform.
The third Community Technolog... |
5 October 2011
06:37 GMT |
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The first Community Technology Preview development milestone of Microsoft Drivers 3.0 for SQL Server for PHP is available for download to early adopters.
At the end of August 2011, I was telling you that the software giant was hard at work on new Java and PHP interoperability resources for SQL Server 2012 codena... |
27 September 2011
10:00 GMT |
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There’s an easier way to test the next iteration of Microsoft’s data platform for the early adopters that could very well do without deploying the pre-release Build available to them. The Redmond company has made available for download a new virtual hard disk of SQL Server codenamed Denali via the Micros... |
9 September 2011
17:01 GMT |
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24 Hours of PASS: Summit Preview event participants will get the chance to win some prizes from the SQL Team through the “#SQLDenali / #24HOP Challenge.”The contest will involve questions from each 24 Hours of PASS session which users will need to respond using their Twitter accounts. Obviously, they&rsq... |
7 September 2011
06:12 GMT |
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Microsoft remains strongly committed to ensuring the developers leveraging PHP and Java for their projects will be able to enjoy interoperability with the next generation of its data platform. Still in development under the codename Denali, the next version of SQL Server will play nice with both Java and PHP applica... |
30 August 2011
07:22 GMT |
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Microsoft has started offering incentives for early adopters testing the next iteration of its data platform to provide feedback.
The third Community Technology Preview of SQL Server codenamed “Denali” has been available for testing since mid-July 2012, and continues to be up for grabs for customers l... |
22 August 2011
04:19 GMT |
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The third community technology preview of SQL Server 2012 codenamed "Denali" was made available for download approximately a week ago, and as usual, Microsoft provided additional resources for early adopters looking to test the new release. It is the case of the Product Documentation, but also of the Release Notes f... |
20 July 2011
05:28 GMT |
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The official PHP Manual is a great place to find information on Microsoft’s SQL Server Driver for PHP. Jonathan Guerin, Program Manager PHP Driver for SQL Server Microsoft revealed that the manual has evolved to also offer developers information on the PHP Driver for SQL Server. Devs can access details on the... |
15 July 2011
04:40 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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Want answers to 101 most frequently asked questions about Microsoft’s data platform? Then look no further than the SQL Server Community FAQs Manual.
Available for download free of charge from Microsoft, the SQL Server Community FAQs Manual offers developers and IT professionals exactly what the label promi... |
10 June 2011
06:54 GMT |
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Developers leveraging Microsoft’s SQL Server Driver for PHP should make sure to use the latest release, as version 1.1 was deprecated. The Microsoft Download Center now features an updated page for v1.1 of the driver under the following title SQL Server Driver for PHP 1.1 - October 2009 – Deprecated. Es... |
3 June 2011
06:28 GMT |
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The SQL Server Compression Estimator is a tool designed to help IT professionals apply data compression to the data bases they administer. Offered free of charge via CodePlex, SQL Server Compression Estimator has been released under an open source license, allowing customers to also contribute to its evolution. Fat... |
27 May 2011
05:29 GMT |
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Want to take advantage of SQL Server as a service rather than an on-premise deployment but aren’t ready for the public Cloud such as Windows Azure with its SQL Azure data platform?Then the answer is a SQL Server Private Cloud which means that customers will need to implement SQL Server as a Service. Fortunatel... |
11 April 2011
07:05 GMT |
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The Metro Early Adoption Program for SQL Server codenamed “Denali” is now live on Microsoft Connect. With Metro, Microsoft is attempting to attract the early participation of developers in the development of the next generation of its data platform. In effect, the Metro Early Adoption Program is an open... |
5 April 2011
11:21 GMT |
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In just three months, customers still running SQL Server 2005 will no longer be able to enjoy Mainstream Support from Microsoft. This because on April 12, 2011, SQL Server 2005 is scheduled to enter the Extended Support phase, which automatically involves a number of changes when it comes down to the assistance that... |
22 March 2011
06:32 GMT |
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SGI has just announced that the company has developed “the largest and most powerful” Windows server released to date, which uses no less than 128 Intel Xeon processing cores as well as up to 1TB of system memory.The new server is called the Altix UV 100 and is built around 3U rackmount enclosures, that a... |
17 March 2011
11:06 GMT |
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Microsoft is ready to welcome PHP and MySQL developers to its platform with open arms. One illustrative example of the company’s efforts to attract devs beyond those leveraging .NET is the PHP on Windows and SQL Server Training Kit.The February 2011 Update of the kit just went live on the Microsoft Download Ce... |
24 February 2011
06:15 GMT |
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New resources available from Microsoft are designed to make it easier for customers to bridge Dynamics AX to Dynamics CRM, as well as make the jump from Oracle to SQL Server. The software giant emphasizes that Dynamics enterprise resource planning (ERP) customers will be able to spend less time and money in scenario... |
23 February 2011
10:59 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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Microsoft has made available for download resources designed to help customers, developers, partners, etc. get insight into the next major iteration of its data platform. Microsoft Books Online for SQL Server Code-Named "Denali" CTP1 is now available for download from the Redmond company free of charge. As the labe... |
27 January 2011
13:01 GMT |
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The interoperability evolution featured by Drupal 7 in relation to the Microsoft platform has caused the Redmond company to welcome the latest iteration of the open source CMS (content management system). In the view of Jean-Paoli, General Manager for Interoperability Strategy, Drupal 7 marks an important milestone ... |
25 January 2011
09:44 GMT |
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SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training Kit – January 2011 Update is now available for download from Microsoft. The Redmond company has been constantly refreshing the training kit it’s offering devs with an interest in building on top of SQL Server 2008 R2, and the latest release is now live on... |
20 January 2011
05:23 GMT |
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Early adopters will have a chance to start testing the next major iteration of Microsoft’s Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) driver soon. The Redmond company has been hard at work on the next release of the JDBC driver for SQL Server, and is extremely close to releasing the first test Build. Amina Saify, Prog... |
19 January 2011
06:52 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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Microsoft has wrapped up its next generation embedded database which the company dubbed SQL Compact Edition 4. As additional releases on January 13th, 2010, including ASP.NET MVC 3 RTM and IIS Express 7.5, SQL Compact Edition 4 is also designed for ASP.NET web application development. Specifically, SQL Compact Editi... |
14 January 2011
06:54 GMT |
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When it was starting to unveil the first details about its latest version of the data platform, Microsoft underlined a strong focus on providing enhanced business intelligence capabilities and features to enterprise customers. Looking back on 2010, Pej Javaheri, Group Product Manager, Business Intelligence Microsoft... |
29 December 2010
06:01 GMT |
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Microsoft is less than a month away from wrapping up WebMatrix a solution offered to simplify the development and deployment of websites on top of Windows. The way I see it, WebMatrix is designed to draw developers away from LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) to the software giant’s technologies, including W... |
22 December 2010
04:45 GMT |
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Microsoft has released an update designed to fix a number of issues in the most recent release of the company’s drivers designed to allow PHP developers to build applications that can connect seamlessly with SQL Server databases. The Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server update went live at the end of the p... |
1 December 2010
07:40 GMT |
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Microsoft is testing a new Cloud service designed to allow customers to make the best out of their SQL Server deployments. The Community Technology Preview of codename Atlanta is now available for testing, offering proactive monitoring of SQL Server installations via the Cloud. For the time being, the software gian... |
1 December 2010
07:27 GMT |
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Yesterday, at the 2010 Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) Conference in Seattle, Microsoft announced a revised SQL Server Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) program. This new Microsoft Certified Master program will make it easier for SQL Server experts to become authentic Microsoft Certified Masters, by off... |
10 November 2010
03:11 GMT |
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For the next five months customers will be able to test Microsoft’s Cloud platform without playing a single cent to the company. This because the Windows Azure Platform Introductory Special has been extended until March 31, 2011. The offering involves the option to test not only the Windows Azure operating sys... |
4 November 2010
07:29 GMT |
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The Washington state Employment Security Department announced that it is giving away all of Microsoft's software training courses to anyone who is registered in the state career-development program.The Microsoft classes are available to all WorkSource customers, and for all of Microsoft's software, from Win... |
1 October 2010
09:15 GMT |
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Microsoft has released almost a handful of free tools designed to help customers streamline the migration from MySQL, Sybase, Access and Oracle to SQL Server. The four tools are a part of the Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) family of products, all of which are available for download and usage free of ... |
16 August 2010
09:50 GMT |
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Microsoft is moving ahead with the development of the next iteration of its SQL Server Driver for PHP. A new release of the driver is now available for download for developers looking to bridge their PHP applications with SQL Server. The second Community Technology Preview (CTP2) of SQL Server Driver for PHP 2.0 can ... |
17 June 2010
07:22 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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Developers that need to connect Java project with Microsoft’s data platform have a new version of the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) driver available for download. The Redmond company has finalized and started offering downloads of SQL Server JDBC Driver 3.0 in conjunction with the release to manufacturing o... |
22 April 2010
09:10 GMT |
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The promise from Microsoft is that the SQL Server PowerPivot technology is capable of helping companies get a new perspective over business data. In this regard, PowerPivot might just prove critical to the evolution of Business Intelligence in the context of IT infrastructures featuring key Microsoft technologies. Th... |
21 April 2010
08:37 GMT |
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Microsoft has silently released SQL Server 2008 R2 to manufacturing. The company has yet to officially announce any details related to the finalization of its latest data platform, however, a number of SQL Server 2008 R2 releases on the Microsoft Download Center feature the RTM tag. The Redmond company insisted that ... |
21 April 2010
06:30 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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A new e-book from Microsoft is currently available for download, designed to introduce the next generation of the company’s data platform to the world. Authored by Ross Mistry and Stacia Misner, ‘Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2’ can be grabbed either in .XPS or in .PDF formats straight from... |
15 April 2010
06:17 GMT |
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Microsoft has yet to wrap up version 3.0 of the SQL Server JDBC Driver, but the company is already starting to plan the future versions of the driver. In this regard, the software giant is ready to tap customers, developers and partners for feedback, with the promise that input will be used to drive the evolution of ... |
31 March 2010
07:19 GMT |
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