Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 18272 available now!
Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 18272 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 18272 contains bug fixes and under...
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Working with US Census Data in R
If you need data about the American populace, there's no source more canonical than the US Census Bureau. The bureau publishes a wide range of public sets, and not just from the main Census conducted...
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Azure SQL Data Warehouse provides frictionless development using SQL Server...
The highly requested feature for SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW) is now in preview with the support for SQL Server Data Tool (SSDT) in Visual Studio! Teams of developers can now collaborate over a single,...
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Automatically discover workload insights for advanced performance tuning...
Advanced tuning for Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW) just got simpler with additional data warehouse recommendations and metrics. SQL DW is a flexible, secure, and fully managed analytics platform for...
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Row-Level Security is now supported for Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Today we’re announcing the general availability of Row-Level Security (RLS) for Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse, an additional capability for managing security for sensitive data. Azure SQL Data...
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Workload insights into SQL Data Warehouse delivered through Microsoft Azure...
SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW) now enables enhanced insights into analytical workloads by integrating directly with Microsoft Azure Monitor diagnostic logs. This new capability enables developers to...
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Azure SQL Data Warehouse introduces new productivity and security capabilities
SQL Data Warehouse continues to provide a best in class price to performance offering, leading others in TPC-H and TPC-DS benchmarks based on independent testing. As a result we are seeing customers,...
View ArticleUse the official range-v3 with MSVC 2017 version 15.9
We’re happy to announce that the ongoing conformance work in the MSVC compiler has reached a new milestone: support for Eric Niebler’s range-v3 library. It’s no longer necessary to use the...
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Collaborate with others and keep track of to-dos with new AI features in Word
Focus is a simple but powerful thing. When you’re in your flow, your creativity takes over, and your work is effortless. When you’re faced with distractions and interruptions, progress is slow and...
View ArticleAnnouncing the general availability of Azure Event Hubs for Apache Kafka®
In today’s business environment, with the rapidly increasing volume of data and the growing pressure to respond to events in real-time, organizations need data-driven strategies to gain valuable...
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Automating SAP deployments in Microsoft Azure using Terraform and Ansible
Deploying complex SAP landscapes into a public cloud is not an easy task. While SAP basis teams tend to be very familiar with the traditional tasks of installing and configuring SAP systems on-premise,...
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Cognitive Services – Bing Local Business Search now available in public preview
We are excited to share that Bing Local Business Search API on Cognitive Services is now available in public preview. Bing Local Business Search API enables users to easily find local business...
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Leverage Azure Security Center to detect when compromised Linux machines attack
When an attacker compromises a machine, they typically have a goal in mind. Some attackers are looking for information residing on the victim’s machine or are looking for access to other machines on...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Whys, Whats, and Whens of ValueTask
The .NET Framework 4 saw the introduction of the System.Threading.Tasks namespace, and with it the Task class. This type and the derived Task<TResult> have long since become a staple of .NET...
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Static Data Masking for Azure SQL Database and SQL Server
The SQL Security team is pleased to share the public preview release of Static Data Masking. Static Data Masking is a data protection feature that helps users sanitize sensitive data in a copy of...
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The importance of Azure Stack for DevOps
This blog post was co-authored by Steve Buchanan, Cloud & Datacenter MVP. DevOps focuses on aligning culture, people, processes, and technology. It is sometimes thought that the technology part...
View ArticleThe smart way to a smarter city: Three critical considerations
The concept of smart buildings is generating lots of excitement, but what’s the transformation to intelligent cities look like at ground level for those in charge of making it happen? This post is the...
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Tips and tricks for migrating on-premises Hadoop infrastructure to Azure...
Today, we are excited to share our tips and tricks series on how to migrate on-premises Hadoop infrastructure to Microsoft Azure HDInsight. Every day, thousands of customers run their mission-critical...
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Azure Marketplace new offers – Volume 24
We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. From October 1 to October 15, 2018, 31 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below:...
View ArticleAzureR: R packages to control Azure services
by Hong Ooi, senior data scientist, Microsoft Azure This post is to announce a new family of packages we have developed as part of the CloudyR project for talking to Azure from R: AzureR. As...
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