Microsoft's second release of ADO.NET Entity Framework 4 could bring object-relational mapping to more developers, but exactly how many remains to be seen.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/01/2009
In conjunction with Microsoft’s launch announcement of Windows Azure at this week’s Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, Embarcadero Technologies released an Azure-related database administration tool.
Microsoft Technical Fellow Dave Campbell details the Dallas data application. Could it emerge as the first killer app for the cloud?
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/17/2009
The November CTP is "feature complete," but developers will still have to wait for the PowerPivot-enabled business intelligence with Excel and SharePoint.
Microsoft on Tuesday said it will release the feature-complete preview of SQL Server 2008 R2, the first major upgrade of its flagship database platform in nearly two years.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/03/2009
A year after the first technical previews of Azure, Microsoft is launching a less-ambitious platform with forklift revisions based on developer feedback.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 11/01/2009
After the much-delayed release of SQL Server 2005 finally came to pass at the end of its namesake year, Microsoft made a promise to release a new version of SQL Server every two to three years, from that point on.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 11/01/2009
New documentation helps developers access data objects and properties in .pst files.
In what could be an escalating war in the emerging arena of cloud-based computing services, Amazon today said it will let customers host relational data in its EC2 cloud service using the MySQL database The company today also said that it plans to slash the costs of its EC2 service by as much as 15 percent.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/27/2009
Microsoft officials described additional details about the upcoming SharePoint Server 2010 product at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/20/2009
Oracle used this week's OpenWorld conference in San Francisco to roll out new tools aimed at providing better integration of its disparate wares, but much of the focus at this year's annual event was on the company's pending $7.4 billion agreement to acquire Sun Microsystems.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/16/2009
Microsoft sent a letter to T-Mobile Sidekick users claiming that most of the customer data thought to be lost during a network failure is now being restored.
October has proved to be the month of record, landing one whopper of a Patch Tuesday.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/13/2009
Microsoft and Capgemini announced a partnership deal on Friday that aims to better integrate Microsoft's software with SAP's enterprise resource planning solutions.
New suite of .NET controls offers Excel-like pivot tables and rich presentation.
- By Michael Desmond
- 10/08/2009