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SQL Server 2008 SP3 is now available!Microsoft SQL Server Sustained Engineering group is pleased to announce the release of SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3. Both the Service Pack and Feature Pack updates are available for download on... [read more]
Solution Brief: Lawson System Foundation Running on SQL ServerIn August 2011, Lawson and Microsoft worked together to confirm the scalability and performance of Lawson System Foundation (LSF) 9.0.1 on SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise and Windows Server 2008 R2 Ente... [read more]
Zenoss DeathmatchI've been working for the last week on implementing Zenoss to replace Nagios and Cacti. Individually Nagios and Cacti are pretty good at what they do, but they don't integrate well.Nagios is primarily... [read more]
OTN MySQL Developer Day in LondonDuring the past few months we've ran a couple of Oracle Technology Network Developer Days focused on MySQL in the US. The events have been a tremendous success and we got a lot of excellent feedback. ... [read more] 
Using Flexviews - part two, change data captureIn my previous post I introduced materialized view concepts. As a reminder, the first post covered the following topics: What is a materialized view(MV)? It explained that an MV can pre-compute jo... [read more]
Introducing xVelocity in-memory technologies in SQL Server 2012 for 10-100X performanceIn a fast evolving new world of data you need immediate answers to any question you ask about your business. Imagine the possibilities of being able to analyze 7 billion rows of data in seconds to gen... [read more]
Guest Blog Post: How to Jumpstart Your Career as a DBA by Thomas LaRockYou are a SQL Server DBA, and I know what you are going through. You are frustrated at having to correct other people's work. You are tired from being woken at odd hours, or needed to work on wee... [read more]
SQL Server JumpIn! Camp: Wrap-up!The SQL Server JumpIn! Camp was an incredible experience in accomplishments and learnings for the 17 invited key PHP developers and for the SQL Server engineers that in 4 days worked side-by-side ... [read more]
SQL Server 2012 Express LocalDB RC0 Now AvailableWe are pleased to announce that SQL Server 2012 Express LocalDB Release Candidate 0 is now available for download. Try it here today! LocalDB is a new version of Express created specifically for deve... [read more]
New Commercial Extensions for MySQL Enterprise EditionMySQL 5.5 GA and MySQL 5.6 Development Milestone Releases have delivered many new compelling features to the MySQL users and community for testing, feedback and use. In addition, commercial customers ... [read more] |
Recent News & Resources
mySQL Shards, Gearman, rabbitMQ, NodeJS, JSONP Push for Fault Tollerant Realtime Notification Feed
Over the past few weeks, I have been tweaking my feed system to be truly real-time. The hypothesis is, if end users are pushed content without forcing them to refresh a page they w... [read more]
Take the Journey into 2012 at SQL Server Connections (Mar 26-29)
SQL Server Connections is happening next week (March 26 - March 30) in Las Vegas and Microsoft is honored to be a Platinum Sponsor of the event. It will be an action packed w... [read more]
Simplifying Management of PDW Appliances with System Center
SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) is a highly scalable appliance for enterprise data warehousing that enables massive scalability, predictable performance, and complete BI s... [read more]
Microsoft Drivers 3.0.1 for PHP for SQL Server with PHP 5.4 Support Released
Dear SQL Server Developer Community, As you know, two weeks ago, we released our 3.0 drivers along with SQL Server 2012. It was around the same time that PHP 5.4 was also released ... [read more]
Introducing SQL Server 2012 Interoperability Solutions
With the data explosion continuing across every datacenter, desktop and device, it's no secret that the world of technology has become a very heterogeneous place. Organizations hav... [read more]
Upcoming MySQL Events in Europe
Oracle's European MySQL team is active running many events during the upcoming couple of months. We hope to see you there - Register Now! Scale with MySQL Are you l... [read more]
SQL in the City: Free SQL Server Event in London
Red Gate Software has announced SQL in the City: London, to be held on Friday, July 13, 2012, at the One Wimpole Street Conference Center, London England. This one day, free event ... [read more]
Teamcenter Running on SQL Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Successfully Supports 10,000 Concurrent Users With Excellent Performance
Product lifecycle management (PLM) is an enterprise, business, and information strategy that helps companies develop and deliver world-class products quickly and efficiently. Teamc... [read more]
Microsoft Extends Cost and Value Leadership with New Data Warehousing Offerings
The world of data is changing with businesses facing an explosion in information volumes and the need to mine different data sources and data types. As a result, IT departments mus... [read more]
White Paper: SQL Server 2008 R2 Provides Enterprise-Class Performance and Scalability for SunGard Front Arena
Today's investors demand a wider variety of asset classes, more complex financial instruments, and a broader geographical range of products than ever before. SunGard meets these de... [read more]
A Quick Introduction to Data Compression in SQL Server 2008
There is one thing every DBA knows with certainty, and that is that databases grow with time. MDFs grow, backups grow, and it never stops. The more data we have... [read more]
SQL Server 2012: Battle-tested for the NEW Mission Critical
Today's world of continuous services and connected devices demands that applications and data will be up and available. Because today's world demands mission-cr... [read more]
Guest Post by EMC: Lightning Strikes Again for SQL Server 2012!
By Virtual Winfrastructure Earlier in February, EMC announced a new server Flash caching solution called VFCache, a hardware and software solution that levera... [read more]
Scalability and Performance of Dassault Systèmes ENOVIA V6 Running on SQL Server 2008 R2: Impressive Benchmark Testing Results
Enterprises have come to rely on increasingly robust product lifecycle management (PLM) systems to streamline their business processes and to keep costs down. P... [read more]
Guest Blog Post from NetApp: Win with Microsoft and NetApp Solutions
NetApp a Microsoft SQL Server 2012, Platinum Sponsor, delivers a comprehensive portfolio of storage and data management solutions to help you get the full value... [read more]