We just shipped a whole batch of new SQL Azure content in the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – October Release and also in the SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit .  Here’s a quick summary of what’s new from a SQL Azure Perspective. New Lab...

Tuesday 11/1/2011 is a big day for SQL Server 2012 .  The SQL Server engineering team will be in the house at DevConnections in Las Vegas.  This post is for people who are attending SQL Server Connections and others who want to learn about SQL...

Well look no further!  I’m pleased to announce that the MySemanticSearch Sample is now available on CodePlex at: mysemanticsearch.codeplex.com MySemanticSearch allows a user to upload Word documents into a SQL Server 2012 table, then visualize the...

I’m pleased to announce that the following presentations have been added to the SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit and are available for download: Introduction To SQL Server 2012 This presentation provides an overview of the key improvements in SQL...

If you want to learn how to develop database and business intelligence solutions that fully exploit SQL Server 2012 improvements, this resource is for you! The SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit includes technical content like labs, demos and presentations...

One of my favorite new features of SQL Server Code Name “Denali” is known as Semantic Search which makes it possible to automatically build tag clouds over a set of content then do powerful searches, such as “find documents that are similar to this one...