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Azure SQL Database: New Service Tiers Q&A
Earlier this month, we celebrated the launch of Microsoft SQL Server 2014, announced that the Analytics Platform System is generally available, and shared a preview of the Intelligent Systems Service. -
Azure SQL Database: Service Tiers & Performance Q&A
A few days ago, I published a post with some anticipated questions & answers to provide details on the new service tiers for Microsoft Azure SQL Database, announced on April 24. -
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. -
Best of 2014: Top 10 Data Exposed Channel 9 Videos for Data Devs
Have you been watching Data Exposed over on Channel 9? If you’re a data developer, Data Exposed is a great place to learn more about what you can do with data: relational and non-relational, on-premises and in the cloud, big and small. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Always Encrypted in SQL Server & Azure SQL Database
This post was authored by Joseph Sirosh, Corporate Vice President of the Data Group at Microsoft. -
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.
Explore SQL Server 2025
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