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This post was written by Jeff Sandquist, General Manager in the Cloud + Enterprise Division. Today we’re announcing the preview release of our new documentation service https://docs.microsoft.com, showcasing content supporting our Enterprise Mobility products.…

Microsoft continues to focus on enabling developers to do amazing work as businesses and industries transform in support of the shift to a cloud-first, mobile-first world. At Build 2016 we will presen

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Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is probably every marketing team's favorite sleight of hand, and Microsoft is hoping it works some magic for SQL Server: The company took pointed aim at Oracle during a live event today (you can stream it here), comparing the…

SharePoint Server 2016 has been designed, developed, and tested with the Microsoft Software as a Service (SaaS) strategy at its core.

Angular 2.0 is pretty great. It's the latest iteration of the very popular Angular.js client-side web framework. It's different from Angular 1.x. Actually, it's very different! In this episode of Web.

In this post from last year, I discussed how random I/Os are slower than sequential I/Os (particularly for conventional rotating hard drives).  For this reason, SQL Server often favors query plans that perform sequential scans of an entire table over plans…

In my last post, I discussed how SQL Server can use sorts to transform random I/Os into sequential I/Os.  In this post, I’ll demonstrate directly how such a sort can impact performance.  For the following experiments, I’ll use the same 3 GByte database that…

A talk about authorization models for application security given at the Utah Java Users Group (Sep 2015).