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MSBuild support for Schema Compare is available
Schema compare is one of the most important Visual Studio SQL Server tooling components. As of our July release the schema compare functionality is available via MSBuild. It can be run from the command...
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Microsoft named a Leader in Agile Business Intelligence by Forrester
We are pleased to see Microsoft acknowledged by Forrester Research as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Agile Business Intelligence Platforms, Q3 2014. We are happy to see what we believe to be an...
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Sentiment Analysis with Microsoft APS and StreamInsight
In this overview and demo, we will show you what sentiment analysis is and how to build a quick mashup that combines real-time access to multiple data sources using tools from Microsoft.Sentiment...
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Users Embrace Azure ML Public Preview
This blog post is authored by Roger Barga, Group Program Manager for Microsoft Azure Machine LearningLast month we announced Microsoft Azure Machine Learning and, this week, we made it available for...
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Pie in the Sky (July 18th, 2014)
Flying this weekend, so definitely need stuff to read. Here's part of what I will be reading while traveling.CloudScaling an Azure website to 380k queries per minute: Some perf stuff tested with...
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SQL Server 2012 with SP2 Slipstream ISO images fixed.
Hi all, just to let you know that we have fixed the issue that I was referring to couple days ago ( SQL Server 2012 with SP2 Slipstream ISO images do not install SP2 ). The new ISOs have been posted on...
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Open complex type step by step with Web API 2.2 for OData v4.0
IntroductionRecently, Microsoft officially announced Web API 2.2 for OData v4 via the blog post Announcing the Release of ASP.NET MVC 5.2, Web API 2.2 and Web Pages 3.2. In this release, a new feature...
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Cumulative Update #11 for SQL Server 2012 SP1
Dear Customers, The 11 th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2012 SP1 is now available for download at the Microsoft Support site. Cumulative Update 11 contains all the SQL Server 2012 SP1...
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Machine Learning and Text Analytics
The following post is from Dr. Ashok Chandra, Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft Research and Dhyanesh Narayanan, Program Manager at Microsoft ResearchWhen I (Ashok) was a student at the Stanford...
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Creating an administrative install of SSDT update for Visual Studio 2013
Since we are offering our VS2013 update via the Visual Studio update channel, there aren't any specific instructions on how to get the download if you need to create an administrative layout. You may...
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Cumulative Update #1 for SQL Server 2012 SP2
Dear Customers, The 1 st cumulative update release for SQL Server 2012 SP2 is now available for download at the Microsoft Support site. Cumulative Update 1 contains all hotfixes in the initial release...
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Using Unsigned Integers in OData
Unsigned integers can be useful in many ways, such as representing data sizes, resource handles and so on. Though OData V4 only supports signed integer natively, the protocol offers a flexible way...
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Get started backing up to the cloud with SQL Server Backup to Microsoft Azure...
If you’re considering backing up your SQL Server database to the cloud, there are many compelling reasons. Not only will you have an offsite copy of your data for business continuity and disaster...
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For proven in-memory technology without costly add-ons, migrate your Oracle...
Today, we are making available a new version of SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA), a free tool to help customers migrate their existing Oracle databases to SQL Server 2014. Microsoft released SQL...
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Clustered Column Store Index: Concurrency and Isolation Level
Clustered Column Store and ConcurrencyThe clustered column store index (CCI) has been designed for Data Warehouse scenario which primarily involvesWrite once and read multiple times – CCI is optimized...
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Clustered Column Store Index: Concurrency with INSERT Operations
Clustered Column Store: Insert OperationsAs described in the blog http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlserverstorageengine/archive/2014/07/27/clustered-column-store-index-concurrency-and-isolation-level.aspx ,...
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Clustered Column Store Index: Bulk Loading the Data
Clustered Column Store: Bulk LoadAs described in the blog http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlserverstorageengine/archive/2014/07/27/clustered-column-store-index-concurrency-and-isolation-level.aspx, the...
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Machine Learning Summer School at CMU
This blog post is authored by Markus Weimer, Principal Scientist at MicrosoftEight years ago, I made the 24-hour journey from my college town of Darmstadt, Germany, to Canberra, Australia to attend a...
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Transitioning from SMP to MPP, the why and the how
This blog post was authored by: Sahaj Saini, PM on the Microsoft Analytics Platform System (APS) team.In this blog post, we’ll provide a quick overview of Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) vs. Massively...
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PASS Summit 2014: Inside the World’s Largest Gathering of SQL Server and BI...
PASS VP of Marketing Denise McInerney– a SQL Server MVP and Data Engineer at Intuit – began her career as a SQL Server DBA in 1998 and attended her first PASS Summit in 2002. The SQL Server Team caught...
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