Six Benefits to Planning for SQL Server 2005 and Windows Server 2003 End of...
As the end of 2014 nears, now is the perfect time to review IT infrastructure plans for the coming year. If you haven’t made supportability a key initiative for 2015, there are some important dates...
View ArticleRelational Data Warehouse + Big Data Analytics: Analytics Platform System...
This blog post was authored by: Matt Usher, Senior PM on the Microsoft Analytics Platform System (APS) teamMicrosoft is happy to announce the release of the Analytics Platform System (APS) Appliance...
View ArticleAzure Data Factory Now Integrates with Azure ML!
An update to Azure Data Factory (ADF) now integrates this service with Azure Machine Learning, allowing you to run finished Azure ML models from within ADF pipelines.Click on this link or the image...
View ArticleResults are Beautiful: 3 Best Practices for Big Data in Healthcare
When you put big data to work, results can be beautiful. Especially when those results are as impactful as saving lives. Here are four best practice examples of how big data is being used in healthcare...
View ArticleCumulative Update #5 for SQL Server 2014 RTM
Dear Customers, The 5 th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2014 RTM is now available for download at the Microsoft Support site. To learn more about the release or servicing model, please visit:...
View ArticleSQL Server Database Tooling Preview Release for the latest Azure SQL Database...
We are excited to announce the release of the Preview of Microsoft® SQL Server Database Tooling in Visual Studio for the latest Azure SQL Database Update V12 (preview) and Microsoft® Data-Tier...
View Article[Announcement] WCF Data Services 5.6.3 RTM Tools Installer Release
We are happy to announce the release of WCF Data Services tooling version 5.6.3. It enables “Add Service Reference” to work with .NET 4.5.2 for consuming OData V1-3 services. Previously, when you try...
View ArticleSQL Server 2014 Management Studio - updated support for the latest Azure SQL...
We are excited to announce enhanced SQL Server 2014 Management Studio (SSMS) support for Azure SQL database including the latest SQL Database Update V12 (preview). Bringing this functionality into SSMS...
View ArticleData Science Perspectives: Q&A with Microsoft Data Scientists Val Fontama and...
You can’t read the tech press without seeing news of exciting advancements or opportunities in data science and advanced analytics. We sat down with two of our own Microsoft Data Scientists to learn...
View ArticleEF6.1.2 RTM Available
Today we are pleased to announce the availability of EF6.1.2. This patch release includes a number of high priority bug fixes and some contributions from our community. What’s in EF6.1.2?EF6.1.2 is...
View ArticleWIRED: How Skype Used AI to Build Its Amazing New Language Translator
Re-post of an article that recently appeared on “… a new Microsoft technology that seems borrowed from the world of Star Trek”“… a Skype add-on that listens to the English words you speak into...
View ArticleSkype Translator Puts Machine Learning to the Test
Our previous post had a video showing Skype's automatic speech translation in action. In this post, we share an infographic from the Skype team about how they perform such automatic speech recognition...
View ArticleReaders’ Choice – Our 10 Most Popular ML Blog Posts of 2014
We launched this blog in June 2014 with the intent of sharing important advances and practical knowledge accumulated by Microsoft in the field of ML. After six months of regular posts, many of them...
View Article[Tutorial & Sample] ODataLib Custom Payload Format
This post is to guide you through the custom payload format support in ODataLib, which was introduced in ODataLib 6.9.0 release.All the sample codes in this post have been put to ODataSamples project,...
View ArticleAzure ML Predicts Customers’ Shopping Lists – Even Before They Shop!
We continue our series of posts how Microsoft customers are gaining actionable insights on their data by operationalizing ML and advanced analytics – at scale and in the cloud. As one of the largest...
View Article[Announcement] RESTier - A turn-key solution to build OData services
What is RESTierRESTier is a RESTful API development framework for building standardized, OData V4 based REST services on .NET. It can be seen as a middle-ware on top of Web API OData. RESTier is built...
View ArticleThe commenting system is not working
Dear OData blog readers,The commenting system is not working. The MSDN support team has been reached out to and the rough fix timeline is early Feb.During this time, any advice or suggestion please...
View ArticlePerspectives from Microsoft Data Scientists Val Fontama and Wee Hyong Tok
Repost of an article earlier published on the SQL Data Platform Insider blog. In an earlier post we talked about a new book titled Predictive Analytics with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning which...
View ArticleHow to consume SQL Spatial Data with Web API V2.2 for OData V4
IntroductionToday, along with the increasing demands of Location-Based Services (LBS), it becomes more and more important to provide functionalities on SQL Spatial Data through a unique, robust and...
View ArticleAddressing Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Machine Learning
Hanna Wallach is a Microsoft ML researcher based out of New York City and also serves as a faculty member in the Computational Social Science Initiative at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.Hanna...
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