Testers of Microsoft's SQL Azure service experienced a three-plus hour unplanned outage this week -- just a couple of weeks before Microsoft is set to remove the beta tag from its Azure cloud service.

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Pairing your on-prem SQL Server with a cloud-based instance for high availability has its challenges, but they can be overcome. Here’s how. The geographic distribution of cloud data centers makes it ...

So I was looking at doing some development for WP7 and was shocked (shocked I tell ya) to discover that WP7 has only XML as a persistent storage system. Frankly this seems like a massive backwards ...

Note: The SQL procedure displays the variable labels as stored in the view. However, because you are referencing a view descriptor, you must use the SAS variable names in the WHERE clause, not the ...

DGIST developed a new graph-based database partitioning method and its system implementation showed 4.2 times faster performance on average than Apacke Spark SQL DGIST developed a core technology that ...

Earlier this morning, we reported that Microsoft had released the first public preview of Windows Server 2012 R2. That's not all the company launched for IT pros. Microsoft has also released the first ...