I’ve been working with Microsoft BI tools for 28 years now and for all that time Microsoft has been consistent in its belief ...

An opportunity to speak with Sabrena McBride, Senior Product Manager for SQL Server, provided a lot of insight into what's new in R2. Some of the highlights: Among other things, SQL Server 2008 R2 is ...

Here’s a real-world story: Data collection and analysis is, ironically, for a data management profession, one of the toughest parts of my job. I regularly pull data from our various databases and ...

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At yesterday’s Microsoft SQL Server 2016 launch in Australia, we were thrilled to unveil a new product that equips customers with real-time operational analytics, rich visualisations on mobile devices ...

SQL Server 2008 R2, which ships this month, allows end users to tap into the powerful business intelligence features of SQL Server via tight integration with popular Microsoft applications like Excel.