You can be among the first to get your hands on the cool new 'Juneau' database development tools if you're willing to test them and provide feedback to Microsoft. The company is now courting TSQL ...

Using SSDT means we don't just shout orders at the database; instead, we plan what we're going to say. For almost 13 years, Microsoft has tried to make Visual Studio a place where developers can do ...

Red Gate has announced that its SQL Server development tools now support SQL Server on Amazon RDS, the latest cloud-based database offering from Amazon. In addition, the company says, its SQL ...

Last year, Microsoft has made a series of changes to the Windows Azure and SQL Server offerings, and has now delivered documentation on the new products. Developers interested in coming up with ...

The latest pre-release version of Denali is now available including the SQL Server Developer Tools codenamed Juneau. In addition Server 2008 R2 SP1 has also been released If you want to keep ahead in ...

Following the release of the new SQL Server 2012 RC0, Microsoft made available for public download the Community Technology Preview 4 iteration of the SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT CTP4), with full ...

As a heavy user of other RDBMS data platforms, I have long appreciated the extra effort that Microsoft put into their data management and administration tool, the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).

There is no more bandied-about buzzword these days than Cloud Computing. Microsoft has gone all in with its Windows Azure offering, which has been written about thoroughly here in the pages of “SD ...

In this second delve into data cleanliness (read the first, How clean is your data?, here), we’ll test-drive the data profiling tool provided with Microsoft SQL Server. Other profiling tools have ...