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Report Builder provides a productive report-authoring environment for IT professionals and power users. Link Removed

The Data Warehouse Migration Utility is designed to ease migrations from SQL Server and Azure SQL Database to Azure SQL Data Warehouse and help users identify incompatibilities before moving. Link Removed

The Microsoft Power BI Personal Gateway enables Power BI users to connect to on-premises data sources such as SQL Server. Link Removed

The Microsoft SQL Server Data-Tier Application Framework (August 2015 Preview) provides application lifecycle services for database development and management. Link Removed

SQL Server 2016 Community Technology Preview 2.3 is here! It is the biggest leap forward in Microsoft’s data platform history with faster transactions and queries, deeper insights on any device, advanced analytics, new security technology, and new hybrid cloud scenarios. Link Removed

Here are a select 23 episodes and posts from our awesome content authors... Link Removed This week on Channel 9, Vlad and guest host Petri Wilhelmsen discuss the week's top developer news, including; Link Removed Link Removed [Gabe Aul] ... CodeChat 035 - Node Chakra Arunesh and team have...

20 select videos from last week... Link Removed This week on Channel 9, Nikola and guest host Giorgio Sardo discuss the week's top developer news, including; Link Removed @gisardo ... Link Removed This is the first in a somewhat experimental series called Brain Dump on Node.js with...

So many great posts, so many new authors, so much great news! Here are just 23 of the shows, episodes and post from last week. But of course the big news was the release of Visual Studio 2015. If you missed the launch event, you can catch it all on demand here, Link Removed Link Removed This...

SQL Server 2016 Upgrade Advisor Preview is a standalone tool that enables users of prior versions to run a set of upgrade rules against their SQL Server database to pinpoint breaking and behavior changes and deprecated features as well as providing help with the adoption of new features such as...

Join Scott Klein and his guests Shawn Bice and Rohan Kumar, LIVE each month on SQL Unplugged, your avenue for chatting with the individuals who own the relational database at Microsoft. Tune in each month as Shawn and Rohan answer your questions and discuss the insights and inner workings of the...

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A security issue has been identified in the SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2 that could allow an attacker to compromise your system and gain control over it. Link Removed

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (July 14, 2015): Bulletin published Summary: This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft SQL Server. The most severe vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if an authenticated attacker runs a specially crafted query that is...

Today we released security updates for Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft SQL Server, and Internet Explorer. As a best practice, we encourage customers to apply security updates as soon as they are released. For more information about this month’s security updates and Link Removed...

Datazen Publisher for Windows 7 allows you to create stunning data visualizations from Excel, SQL Server, SSAS, SQL Azure, SharePoint and other cloud & enterprise data sources. Link Removed

Last week we launched something new, something we don't do very often at all, a new Channel 9 hub just for Visual Studio, https://channel9.msdn.com/VisualStudio. expect this hub to explode with content in the coming months (which makes sense given Visual Studio 2015's release) Link Removed...

Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Integration Services (SSIS) Feature Pack for Azure provides SSIS the capability of connecting to Azure Blob Storage and Azure HDInsight. It enables you to create SSIS packages that transfer data between an Azure Blob Storage and on-premises data sources, and process...

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Integration Services (SSIS) Feature Pack for Azure provides SSIS the capability of connecting to Azure Blob Storage and Azure HDInsight. It enables you to create SSIS packages that transfer data between an Azure Blob Storage and on-premises data sources, and process...

In this episode of Data Exposed, Scott welcomes Jakub Szymaszek, a Senior Program Manager in the SQL Server team. In this episode, Jakub discusses the Always Encrypted technology in SQL Server 2016. Quite different from TDE, Always Encrypted, as Jakub explains, is the encryption of data not only...

The Master Data Services Add-in for Excel gives multiple users the ability to update master data in a familiar tool without compromising the data’s integrity in Master Data Services. Link Removed