The theme of Ballmer's keynote address was integration, but it was the move by a fictitious coffee company to integrate a recent application and set up the infrastructure for a promotion campaign that ...

Note – This book abbreviates SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services as SSRS and SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services as SSRS2K5. New features available in SSRS and not in SSRS2K5 are labeled with “New in ...

Host Integration Server 2020 (HIS 2020), which lets Microsoft technologies talk with IBM mainframe solutions, is now available for download, Microsoft announced this week. HIS 2020 has support for ...

When it comes to implementing a big data strategy in a Microsoft SQL Server shop, you’re generally going to consider one of three strategies. In the first strategy, which I won’t be addressing today, ...

Details about Microsoft's plans pertaining to its next BizTalk Server product and associated Azure plans were disclosed late last month. Wiggers was bullish about the role that Azure services, which ...

Every business intelligence solution needs data, which might come from a variety of sources and in different formats. Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services, or SSIS, allows you to extract data ...

Microsoft complements its relational database engine, SQL Server, with several add-on services that manage different aspects of enterprise business intelligence and information processing such as data ...

A new SQL Server 2025 feature lets organizations run vector-based semantic searches on their own data, connecting to local or cloud-hosted AI models without relying on massive general-purpose LLMs. I ...