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Help Design the Next Version of Python Tools for Visual Studio
Posted by Shahrokh Mortazavi, Partner Director of Program Management at Microsoft. I am delighted to announce that for the upcoming version of Python Tools for Visual Studio, the product design will be...
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What Can Data Science Do For Me?
This post is authored by Brandon Rohrer, Senior Data Scientist at Microsoft.This is the first of a three-part post introducing data science without any technical jargon. Watch out for the next...
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What Types of Questions Can Data Science Answer?
This post, authored by Brandon Rohrer, Senior Data Scientist at Microsoft, is the second in a three-part series introducing data science with no jargon. The first post covered What Can Data Science Do...
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New Azure SQL Database offerings add capabilities to scale data up and out
Tiffany Wissner, Senior Director of Data Platform MarketingAt Microsoft we’re committed to meeting the needs of our customers by offering choices as they build cloud applications for scale and...
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Public Preview Refresh of SQL Server Connector for Microsoft Azure Key Vault
For those that missed it, the Public Preview refresh download for the SQL Server Connector for Microsoft Azure Key Vault was released on Aug 14, 2015 to the Microsoft Download Center. The SQL Server...
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Appliance Update 4 Generally Available
Matt Usher, Senior Program Manager, DS SQL EngineeringWe are pleased to announce the general availability of Appliance Update 4 for the Microsoft Analytics Platform System. The Microsoft Analytics...
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Free Webinar: Predictive Analytics for Sales & Marketing
As sales and marketing become increasingly data-driven functions, big data and machine learning are playing an outsized and disruptive role. Until recently, companies would learn about their customers...
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New SQL Server 2014 Logo Certification Program
We are proud to announce the SQL Server Logo Certification Program, part of the Enterprise Cloud Application Logo Certification Programs announced in April. The program is designed to help application...
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Combining relational and NoSQL concepts in SQL Server with JSON
IntroIn this article we will see how you can combine NoSQL and relational concepts in SQL Server database.We will see how you can transform tables to JSON objects and vice versa using FOR JSON and...
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Which Algorithm Family Can Answer My Question?
This post, authored by Brandon Rohrer, Senior Data Scientist at Microsoft, is the last in a three-part series introducing data science with no jargon. The first post was titled What Can Data Science Do...
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Excel Add-in for Azure ML
This blog post is authored by Ted Way, Program Manager in the Information Management & Machine Learning group at Microsoft. Today we are making available a free Excel add-in that you can use with...
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Let's chat about SQL Server cloud hosting
SQL Server DBAs and Azure Professionals, The SQL Server product team is looking for feedback and your individual perspectives about cloud hosted environments for SQL Server, whether you're focused on...
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Logging On To Azure ML With Your Work Or School Account
This blog post is authored by Hai Ning, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft.I am happy to announce that we have added a long-awaited feature to Azure Machine Learning – the ability to log on to ML...
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Introducing: SQL Server 2016 Community Technology Preview 2.3
The SQL Server 2016 Community Technology Preview (CTP) 2.3 is now available for download! This release fully embraced the “Cloud First” tenet, as this release build was deployed to SQL Azure Database...
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SQL Server 2016 Community Technology Preview 2.3 is available
The SQL Server engineering team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of SQL Server 2016 August monthly public preview release CTP 2.3. This release fully embraced the “Cloud First” tenet,...
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Download the new JDBC 4.2 for SQL Server Driver
We are pleased to announce availability of the Microsoft JDBC 4.2 Driver for SQL Server! The updated driver provides robust data access to Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Azure SQL Database for...
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New edX Course: Data Science & Machine Learning Essentials
This post is by Chirag Dhull, Product Marketing Manager in the Data Platform Marketing Team at Microsoft. We are excited to announce the launch of our very first MOOC – Data Science & Machine...
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Cortana Analytics Workshop in Redmond tomorrow
We are excited to welcome attendees to the Cortana Analytics Workshop which starts in Redmond tomorrow. Several hundreds of Microsoft customers and partners are attending this two-day event. With 1 in...
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Enforcing uniqueness constraint in table with Clustered Columnstore Index
SQL Server introduced ‘updateable’ clustered columnstore index (CCI) starting with SQL Server 2014 to speed up analytics by orders of magnitude up to 100x while significantly reducing storage,...
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Data Munging with Azure ML
This guest post is by the faculty of our upcoming Data Science MOOC, Dr. Stephen Elston, Managing Director at Quantia Analytics & Professor Cynthia Rudin from M.I.T. Aspiring data scientists can...
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