From Data Platform Blog: By Tiffany Wissner, Senior Director, Data Platform At the Build conference in April, we announced Azure SQL Data Warehouse, our new enterprise-class elastic data warehouse-as-a-service. Today, we’re pleased to announce that Azure SQL Data Warehouse isRead More

From Data Platform Blog: Microsoft is committed to continuous innovation to make Azure the best cloud platform for running hyper-scale big data projects. This includes an existing Hadoop-as-a-service solution, Azure HDInsight, a hyper-scale repository for big data, Azure Data Lake,Read More

Next week I’ll be on the road delivering SQL Server Upgrade and Migration seminars. Are  joining in any of the following locations? Bring your questions! Registration is still open! Mountain View, CA May 19 Click Here to Register Chicago, ILRead More

Microsoft’s first Ignite conference is a fact, and it was AWESOME! Last week I (Dandy Weyn)  had the great opportunity of being at Ignite as a staffer to the Microsoft booth for both Data Platform and Business Intelligence. Our veryRead More

This blog is just a quick announcement that SQLBaremetal Workshops are a fact, and content is being updated with the latest and greatest Since I will be doing a lot on SQLBaremetal moving forward, follow this link to the SQLBaremetalRead More

Today at Ignite, Microsoft announced the soon to be released preview of SQL Server 2016.       That’ right – SQL Server v.Next has a name, it’s SQL Server 2016 I am very excited about the continuing announcements broughtRead More

14 sessions I would recommend to anyone at Ignite. (for data platform and business analytics) I’ve been to a lot of conferences, so many that I can’t remember how many I’ve been at. Starting 14 years ago, I attended myRead More

Are you planning to Upgrade or Migrate to SQL Server 2014? In partnership with Microsoft,  DB Best is delivering  free 3 hour seminars at multiple Microsoft MTC locations, seating is limited so register now! In this 3 hour seminar you’ll learn:Read More

Dear Microsoft, If I would be in a relationship status with you on Facebook, it would probably be set to “It’s complicated“. Oh goodness, I don’t know where to start, but quite honestly, our relationship goes way back, to theRead More

You are running any of the following applications on Oracle or Sybase, and you are wondered what it would take to get them migrated to SQL Server? Well you probably qualify to join us for a by-invitation only 3 day handsRead More