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Award-Winning Research Paper Brings Precision to Sampling Methods Used in...
Through a new, efficient algorithm for exact sampling, Microsoft researchers Daniel Tarlow and Tom Minka, along with former Microsoft intern Chris Maddison, address a core problem of statistics and...
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Channel 9 Video on Azure Data Factory
In case you missed it: Channel 9 recently featured a discussion and demos of our preview release of Azure Data Factory. In this video, Anand Subbaraj introduces us to Azure Data Factory (ADF), a new...
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Cumulative Update #4 for SQL Server 2012 SP2
Dear Customers, The 4 th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2012 SP2 is now available for download at the Microsoft Support site. Cumulative Update 4 contains all hotfixes which have been...
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Dr. Pig - or how Azure ML is helping Chinese pig farmers
The range of applications where Machine Learning (ML) can be applied never cease to amaze us.Recently, a team in Microsoft China which included an intern whose father raises pigs built a phone app to...
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New Year’s Resolution? Free BI and Big Data Training
Interested in growing your BI and Big Data skills in 2015? Maybe your new year’s resolution is all about learning something new or taking your analytics knowledge to the next level?See what BI and Big...
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Announcing Winners of the Azure for Research Awards for ML
As one part of the Microsoft Azure for Research project we periodically run RFPs and offer awards that grant access to Azure Machine Learning to researchers, instructors and students. The goal of these...
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Cumulative Update #14 for SQL Server 2012 SP1
Dear Customers, The 14 th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2012 SP1 is now available for download at the Microsoft Support site. Cumulative Update 14 contains all the SQL Server 2012 SP1...
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AlwaysOn Availability Groups may be reported as NOT SYNCHRONIZING after you...
Dear customers, we would like to inform you of a problem that we have discovered. As we are working on a plan to fix it we want to share here what the symptoms are and what the mitigation is. When you...
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Microsoft Acquires Equivio, Provider of ML Solutions for eDiscovery and...
Re-post from the Official Microsoft BlogOur customers generate enormous volumes of data every day including tons of email and documents. Sifting through all that data to find what is relevant to a...
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[Announcement] OData Web API 5.4 Beta
The NuGet packages for OData Web API 5.4 beta are now available on the NuGet gallery.Download this releaseYou can install or update the NuGet packages for OData Web API 5.4 beta using the Package...
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Microsoft to Acquire Revolution Analytics
Re-posted from the Official Microsoft BlogMicrosoft has reached an agreement to acquire Revolution Analytics. Announcing this earlier today, Joseph Sirosh, Corporate Vice President of Information...
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Broad interest in our Revolution Analytics announcement
Our Friday announcement about Revolution Analytics generated a lot of interest worldwide with positive coverage in many technology and business publications and on social channels including Hacker News...
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Video - Check out the cool new Power BI service
Earlier this week, James Phillips, General Manager for Data Experiences at Microsoft, unveiled the new Power BI, a cloud-based business analytics service designed for non-technical business...
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Automated Backup and Automated Patching for SQL Server in Azure Portal and...
In an effort to provide an extra level of convenience, we are releasing two features that will simplify the effort to ensure the health of your SQL Virtual Machine and your data. These features,...
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SQL Server AlwaysOn Template in Azure Portal Now Supports Existing Domains...
In August, we announced the SQL Server AlwaysOn Offering in the Microsoft Azure Portal Gallery. This offering fully automates the configuration of a highly available SQL Server deployment on Azure...
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Azure is the Ideal Cloud for Your Database Workloads with Increased SQL...
By Tiffany Wissner, Sr. Director for Data Platform MarketingToday we are announcing general availability for the latest update to Azure SQL Database, introduction of new SQL Database security features,...
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Row-Level Security for Azure SQL Database
I'm so excited to announce that we are deploying Row-Level Security, a programmability feature to ease the writing of business security logic in the database, to Azure SQL Database. Coming to a region...
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[Announcement] OData Web API 5.4 RC
The NuGet packages for OData Web API 5.4 RC are now available on the NuGet gallery.Download this releaseYou can install or update the NuGet packages for OData Web API 5.4 RC using the Package Manager...
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Updated MSDN Documentation for Azure SQL Database Row-Level Security
Row-Level Security Preview
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Power BI Preview and SQL Server Analysis Services
Yesterday we announcedexciting news for Power BI– a cloud-based business analytics service (software-as-a-service) for non-technical business users. The preview introduces a number of new Power BI...
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