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PASS Summit 2014 - Don’t miss the largest conference for SQL Server...
Do you have the “Data Gene”? Preparations for PASS Summit 2014 in Seattle, Washington are well underway. We are very excited to have this year’s event back in Seattle and look forward to bringing you...
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Announcing the PASS 24 HOP Challenge
Calling all data junkies! How smart are you? Want to get smarter?Play along with #pass24hop Challenge on Twitter starting at 5:00 AM PT Tuesday, September 9, 2014 to win a free Microsoft Exam Voucher!...
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Video – Pier 1 Imports Uses Azure ML to Build a Better Relationship with...
This is the first in a series of posts on how Microsoft customers are gaining actionable insights on their data by operationalizing Machine Learning at scale in the cloud. With over 1,000 stores, Pier...
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[Announcement] ODataLib 6.7.0 Release
We are happy to announce that the ODL 6.7.0 is released and available on NuGet. Detailed release notes are listed below:New FeaturesEdmLib supports a list of additional core vocabulary terms -...
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Predict What's Next: Getting Started on Azure Machine Learning - Part 1
Earlier this summer at WPC, we announced the preview ofMicrosoft Azure Machine Learning, a fully-managed cloud service for building predictive analytics solutions. With this service, you can overcome...
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From Stumps to Trees to Forests
This blog post is authored by Chris Burges, Principal Research Manager at Microsoft Research, Redmond.In my last post we looked at how machine learning (ML) provides us with adaptive learning systems...
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Predict What's Next: How to Get Started with Machine Learning Part 2
Earlier this week we talked about getting up and running on Azure to start exploring the new machine learning service. From here, you can really start to dig in and try out the capabilities of a cloud...
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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. These service tiers raise the bar for what you can expect from a...
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2014 winners: 24 Hours of PASS
Thank you to everyone who took the time to enter the contest #pass24hop Challenge! As always, we had a great time listening to such passionate community speakers.Congratulations to all the winners!...
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Announcing the Release of Web API OData 5.3
The NuGet packages for ASP.NET Web API OData 5.3 are now live on the NuGet gallery!Download this releaseYou can install or update the NuGet packages for ASP.NET Web API OData 5.3 using the NuGet...
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New VM Images Optimized for Transactional and DW workloads in Azure VM Gallery
We are delighted to announce the release of new optimized SQL Server images in the Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines Gallery. These images are pre-configured with optimizations for transactional and...
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Cumulative Update #12 for SQL Server 2012 SP1
Dear Customers, The 12 th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2012 SP1 is now available for download at the Microsoft Support site. Cumulative Update 12 contains all the SQL Server 2012 SP1...
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Cumulative Update #2 for SQL Server 2012 SP2
Dear Customers, The 2 nd cumulative update release for SQL Server 2012 SP2 is now available for download at the Microsoft Support site. Cumulative Update 2 contains all hotfixes which have been...
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Microsoft Machine Learning Hackathon 2014
This blog post is authored by Ran Gilad-Bachrach, a Researcher with the Machine Learning Group in Microsoft Research.Earlier this summer, we had our first broad internal machine learning (ML) hackathon...
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Extensibility and R Support in the Azure ML Platform
This blog post is authored by Debi Mishra, Partner Engineering Manager in the Information Management and Machine Learning team at Microsoft.The open source community practicing machine learning (ML)...
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New Optimized OLTP and Data Warehousing SQL Server Images on Azure
Microsoft Azure continues to offer customers more reasons why Azure Virtual Machines are an ideal place to develop, test and run your SQL Server applications. This promise is further enhanced with...
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SQL Application Column Encryption Sample (Codeplex) available
To achieve many compliance guidelines on Azure SQL Database, the application needs to encrypt the data. The intent of this article is provide some guidelines and an example library for encrypting data...
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Microsoft Azure Offers HDInsight (Hadoop-as-a-service) to China
Microsoft today announced that Azure HDInsight is now available for all customers in China as a public preview, making it the first global cloud provider to have a publicly available cloud Hadoop...
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EF6.1.2 Beta 1 Available
Today we are making Beta 1 of the EF6.1.2 release available. This patch release contains bug fixes and some contributions from our community. What’s in Beta 1?EF6.1.2 is mostly about bug fixes, you...
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KDD – Two Themes
This blog post is authored by Jacob Spoelstra, Director of Data Science at the Information Management & Machine Learning (IMML) team at Microsoft.The recently concluded KDD conference reaffirmed...
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