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Updates November 19, 2014 2 min read

Azure HDInsight Adds Deeper Tooling Experience in Visual Studio

To allow developers in Visual Studio to more easily incorporate the benefits of “big data” with their custom applications, Microsoft is adding a deeper tooling experience for HDInsight in Visual Studio in the most recent version of the Azure SDK.
Best Practices December 8, 2014 2 min read

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.
Best Practices January 14, 2016 4 min read

Data security, SQL Server 2016, and your business

Security is unquestionably a major priority for Microsoft.
Best Practices January 25, 2016 4 min read

Use Dynamic Data Masking to obfuscate your sensitive data

Data privacy is a major concern today for any organization that manages sensitive data or personally identifiable information (PII).
Events February 23, 2016 1 min read

Your invitation to be among the first to hear from SQL Server 2016 engineers

If there’s one phrase that characterizes the SQL Server technical community, it’s passion for learning and sharing data platform knowledge.
Best Practices March 7, 2016 5 min read

Technical Overview: SQL Server 2016 Release Candidate 0

The SQL Server engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of SQL Server 2016 Release Candidate 0.
Best Practices October 13, 2016 4 min read

SQL Server 2016 Express Edition in Windows containers

We are excited to announce the public availability of SQL Server 2016 Express Edition in Windows Containers! The image is now available on Docker Hub and the build scripts are hosted on our SQL Server Samples GitHub repository.
Events October 17, 2016 1 min read

Developers: Don’t miss this PASS Summit pre-conference session

The new era of data driven and intelligent applications is here – powered by a robust data platform and a secure cloud infrastructure.
Announcements November 16, 2016 7 min read

Announcing the Next Generation of Databases and Data Lakes from Microsoft

This post was authored by Joseph Sirosh, Corporate Vice President of the Microsoft Data Group.
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.
Thought Leadership March 28, 2017 1 min read

Build intelligent applications with help from Microsoft App Accelerate

Today’s exec is rudely awakened daily to ever-changing customer expectations.
Announcements April 3, 2017 1 min read

SQL Server Command Line Tools for Mac: Preview now available

This post was authored by Meet Bhagdev, Program Manager, Microsoft We are excited to announce the availability of the preview for SQL Server Command Line Tools (sqlcmd and bcp) on Mac OS.

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