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Thought Leadership September 4, 2012 1 min read

EMC Guest Blog Post: Industry Leading Auction Website Sees Gains in Performance and Scalability with EMC And SQL Server

If you have ever gone online to bid on a collectible item for sale, there’s a good chance you were using Heritage Auctions to bid on that item.

Thought Leadership August 28, 2012 4 min read

TPC-E – Raising the Bar in OLTP Performance

Blog Author: Charles Levine, Principal Program Manager, SQL Server Performance Engineering Maximizing SQL Server’s performance and scalability is a complex engineering challenge.

Events August 21, 2012 2 min read

Denny Cherry Guest Post: Get Ready for PASS Summit 2012

Guest Blog Post by: Denny Cherry, MVP and Independent Consultant (www.

Thought Leadership August 9, 2012 1 min read

Thai law enforcement optimizes investigations with Microsoft big data solution

If you’ve been watching Be the Next Microsoft Employee along with us, you probably know about the real-world filter on the competition’s challenges – a metric that ensures that competitors are solving the same issues that companies face.

Thought Leadership August 2, 2012 2 min read

Guest Blog Post: Be the Next contestants tackle SQL Server Security – but do they pass the test?

Guest Blog Authors: Buck Woody, Senior Technical Professional, Windows Azure and Cloud Computing at Microsoft boB Taylor, Principal Content Publishing Manager MCSM at Microsoft When we put our heads together to figure out the challenges for the reality show Be the Next Microsoft Employee, we had a few requirements that we used as a filter: […]

Thought Leadership July 19, 2012 3 min read

SQL Server 2012 Delivers Unparalleled Performance for Telecommunication Companies

The team here at Microsoft designed SQL Server 2012 to be chock-full of technologies that deliver a major leap forward in performance and include a suite of tools that help make performance more consistent and predictable.

Thought Leadership July 5, 2012 1 min read

The Fantastic 12 of 2012: Behind the Scenes of Creating “Extend Any Data, Anywhere”

The Fantastic 12 of 2012 contest is over, but we have one last episode for you! In this last chapter, we interview Sudhesh Suresh, Senior Program Manager on the SQL Team.

Thought Leadership July 3, 2012 3 min read

Technology Helps the Next Generation of Graduates

Today we have a guest post from SQL Server MVP Brian Knight.

Thought Leadership June 29, 2012 1 min read

Partner Blog Feature: Why Epicor thinks Microsoft SQL Server 2012 makes Business Intelligence Personal

Erik Johnson, VP of Product Research at Epicor Software Corporation and an avid SQL Server Developer for over 10 years has recently posted a great blog discussing how companies of any size can benefit from the innovations in SQL Server 2012.

Thought Leadership June 28, 2012 1 min read

The Fantastic 12 of 2012: Behind the Scenes of Creating “Rapid Data Exploration & Visualization”

We have reached the final week of the Fantastic 12 of 2012 contest.

Thought Leadership June 21, 2012 1 min read

The Fantastic 12 of 2012: Behind the Scenes of Creating Optimized Productivity

The 11th episode of The Fantastic 12 of 2012: Behind the Scenes Blog Series is here, and we are excited to be discussing optimized IT and developer productivity across server and cloud with a common toolset.

Thought Leadership June 14, 2012 1 min read

The Fantastic 12 of 2012: Behind the Scenes of Creating Fast Time to Solution Technologies

In the 10th episode of the Behind the Scenes series, it’s time to talk about reducing complexity and accelerating time to solution with turn-key appliances and cloud offerings.

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