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“It really has never been a better time than today to be a software developer,” Scott Guthrie (Executive Vice President, Cloud and Enterprise Group, Microsoft). The annual developer event, Microsoft Connect(); took place 15 – 17 November 2017. Over the three days there were approximately…

Microsoft is introducing a new unified migration tooling experience for mission-critical databases. There will be three new options to help you modernise your data to the cloud. This is what Microsoft says: The new Azure Database Migration Service will help you migrate existing on-premises SQL…

Microsoft has announced the availability of custom forms, multi-value choice and read-only attachments support for SharePoint with PowerApps. For details read the blog by Microsoft’s Ankit Saraf, Senior Program Manager for PowerApps here. Source: Microsoft

Join Catherine Boeger, General Manager at Microsoft, on 16 November at 4PM GMT for a webinar to find out how Microsoft solutions can help you prepare for the GDPR. For further details visit the Microsoft registration page here.   Source: Microsoft

Big Data London, the UK’s largest data and analytics event, is taking place at Olympia on 15 and 16 November 2017. With talks scheduled from leading, global data and analytics experts, the event is “ready to arm you with the tools to deliver your most…

At the PASS Summit last week Microsoft announced it is releasing SQL Operations Studio, a new cross-platform (Windows, Mac and Linux) tool for running queries against SQL Server. Set for release “in a few weeks” according to this blog post by Rohan Kumar (General Manager…

All getting started at the Microsoft Future Decoded 2017 day 2 keynote! Photo Credit: Kevin McDonnell

The first cumulative update release for SQL Server 2017 RTM is now available from the Microsoft Downloads site. Registration is no longer required for cumulative updates. Source: Microsoft