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Best Practices October 3, 2016 1 min read

Windows Server 2016 and SQL Server 2016: Leveraging Hyper-V large-scale VM performance for in-memory transaction processing

This post was authored by Liang Yang, Principal Performance Engineer on the Hyper-V team and Jos de Bruijn, Senior Program Manager on the SQL Server team.

Announcements March 7, 2017 2 min read

Gartner names Microsoft a leader in the Magic Quadrant for Data Management Solutions for Analytics (DMSA)

This post was authored by Rohan Kumar, General Manager, DS SQL Engineering.

Best Practices July 6, 2018 1 min read

SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 are reaching end of support. What’s next?

SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 have had a tremendous run.

Announcements September 24, 2018 6 min read

SQL Server 2019 preview combines SQL Server and Apache Spark to create a unified data platform

Today at Ignite, Microsoft announced the preview of SQL Server 2019.

News May 16, 2019 2 min read

SQL Server 2017 achieves top TPC benchmarks for OLTP and DW on Linux and Windows

Once again, SQL Server 2017 has led the pack with three new TPC benchmarks published in April 2019, ranking SQL Server 2017 as the fastest database for online transaction processing (OLTP) and data warehouse (DW) workloads on Windows and Linux.

Updates November 7, 2019 2 min read

New in Azure Synapse Analytics: CICD for SQL Analytics using SQL Server Data Tools

At Microsoft Ignite 2019, we announced Azure Synapse Analytics, a major evolution of Azure SQL Data Warehouse.

Events November 8, 2021 1 min read

PASS Data Community Summit keynote: a bridge to a new universe

It is almost time for PASS Data Community Summit 2021, a free online conference for the Microsoft data platform professional.

Updates July 3, 2024 4 min read

Announcing the retirement of SQL Server Stretch Database

In July 2024, SQL Server Stretch Database will be discontinued for SQL Server 2022, 2019, and 2017.

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