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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

This week’s ASP.NET Community Standup is hosted by Scott Hanselman (Microsoft Principal Community Architect for Web Platform & Tools), Jon Galloway (.NET Foundation Executive Director), Damian Edwards (Microsoft Principal Program Manager for ASP.NET), and features special guest Sebastien Ros (Microsoft Software Development Engineer). Watch it…

According to Spiceworks’ 2018 State of IT report, “Company revenues are expected to rise, IT budgetary waters look calm, and IT pros are gearing up to adopt new tech in the coming year.” One of the key findings is that 87% of IT budgets look…

SharePoint Server 2019 was announced by Jeff Teper at the recent Ignite 2017 conference. Microsoft has released little details to date though some of the “big bets” it listed in this blog post are: Next-Gen Sync Client support Modern UX throughout the product Flow /…

SQL Server 2017 became generally available on 2 October and represents a major step towards making it a platform that gives you choices of development languages, data types, on-premises or cloud, and operating systems by bringing the power of SQL Server to Linux, Linux-based Docker…