To meet the anticipated demand for off-premises data services, three major players in the Internet arena have released beta versions of highly scalable hosted database resources: Microsoft's SQL ...

To help address the challenges of increasing data volumes by rapidly turning data into actionable business insights, the software giant, Microsoft has unveiled the latest version of the world’s most ...

Test data manage­ment (TDM) refers to the process of creating, main­taining, and using test data to validate the functionality of an application. TDM is a critical aspect of the testing process, as it ...

A comparison of SQL Server's throughput performance on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) gives the edge to Microsoft's cloud. "Azure emerged as the clear leader across both Windows and ...

Note – This book abbreviates SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services as SSRS and SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services as SSRS2K5. New features available in SSRS and not in SSRS2K5 are labeled with “New in ...

Test drives of various Big Data technologies are now available on the Amazon cloud in a new program launched by MapR Technologies Inc. that lets enterprises test the analytics waters with integrated ...