Bring Interactive Analytics to Azure HDInsight: Kyligence Analytics Platform...
In resource-intensive systems, queries will compete for runtime resources and it takes hours to return when the work load is high. SQL on Hadoop is improving continuously, but it is still common to...
View ArticleJuly 2017 Leaderboard of Database Systems contributors on MSDN
Congratulations to our July top-10 contributors! Alberto Morillo and Hilary Cotter maintain their top positions. This Leaderboard initiative was started in October 2016 to recognize the top Database...
View ArticleAutomate Application Insights processes with the connector for Flow and Logic...
Azure Application Insights provides powerful search capabilities to query and get insights from your telemetry data. Often, you may find yourself running the same queries repeatedly to validate whether...
View ArticleHow to make best use of the byte compiler in R
Tomas Kalibera, the newest member of the R Core Team, has been working for the last several years with fellow Core Team member Luke Tierney implementing R's byte-code compiler and interpreter....
View ArticleWelcome to the .NET Framework 4.7.1 Early Access!
Today, we are happy to announce an early access build of .NET Framework 4.7.1. The .NET Framework 4.7.1 is the next version of the .NET Framework. It is currently feature-complete and in the testing...
View ArticleHow do we use RM for our test runs
Authored by Gaurav Sisodia from EPS team and Aseem Bansal from RM team. In this post, we will talk about how VSTS organization (Brian Harry’s team) is using VSTS for continuous integration and testing...
View ArticleOperating Azure Stack
Ever since we announced that Azure Stack is ready to order, we’ve seen a variety of questions related to managing and operating Azure Stack. This blog kicks off a series of blogs addressing these...
View ArticleAnnouncing deploy to Azure app service Jenkins plugin and more
We are proud to announce the availability of the Azure App Service plugin for Jenkins, which provides Jenkins native capability to continuously deploy to Azure Web Apps. Depending on your environment,...
View Article14 Relaxing Bing Nature Photos Because You Earned It by Buzzfeed
“Literally Just 14 Relaxing Nature Photos Because You Earned It Today by Buzzfeed” is a post Bing is sharing from Buzzfeed. Look, you've had a long day... ...or maybe you haven't. What do we know?...
View ArticleVSTS Update – Aug 4
This week we are deploying our sprint 121 work for Visual Studio Team Services. There’s a lot of good stuff and you can read the release notes for details. Probably the biggest thing is the public...
View ArticleThe week in .NET – Rezoom.SQL, Protobuf in Orlando, and links!
Previous posts: Nuke, Warden.NET, .NET in Bangalore MIST, F# in NYC Command Line Parser Library, .NET South East Tool of the week: Rezoom.SQL Rezoom.SQL is an F# ORM for SQL databases. It integrates...
View ArticleWindows Subsystem for Linux on Windows Server
The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is available in Windows Insider builds of Windows Server. Now developers and application administrators can run tools they use in Linux environments alongside Cmd...
View ArticleAzure AD authentication extensions for Azure SQL DB and SQL DW tools
With the latest SQL server tools release we extended the Azure AD authentication support for SQL DB and DW tools for token-based authentication (Universal authentication) with MFA support. The...
View ArticleTutorial: Publish an R function as a SQL Server stored procedure with the...
In SQL Server 2016 and later, you can publish an R function to the database as a stored procedure. This makes it possible to run your R function on the SQL Server itself, which makes the power of that...
View ArticleWindows 10 SDK Preview Build 16257 and Mobile Emulator Build 15235 Released
Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK and the Mobile Emulator to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 16257 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 16257...
View Article.NET Framework August 2017 Security and Quality Rollup
Today, we are releasing the August 2017 Security and Quality Rollup Update. This update applies to Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016. Security There are no new security changes for the .NET Framework...
View ArticleAnnouncing the new and improved Azure Log Analytics
The Azure Log Analytics service is rolling out an upgrade to existing customers today – offering powerful search, smart analytics, and even deeper insights. This upgrade provides an interactive query...
View ArticleGeneral Availability: Azure Media Redactor
Azure Media Redactor is a powerful cloud video processing service which is capable of automatically detecting and blurring faces in your videos, for use in cases such as public safety and news media....
View ArticleTutorial: Deep Learning with R on Azure with Keras and CNTK
by Le Zhang (Data Scientist, Microsoft) and Graham Williams (Director of Data Science, Microsoft) Microsoft's Cognitive Toolkit (better known as CNTK) is a commercial-grade and open-source framework...
View ArticleWhat’s new in VSTS Sprint 121 Update
The Sprint 121 Update of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) is rolling out more broadly to accounts this week and includes Wiki in public preview and many features to make your workflow more integrated...
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