Authors: Kevin Cox & Michael Thomassy Contributors: Lubor Kollar Technical Reviewers: Shaun Tinline-Jones, Chuck Heinzelman, Steve Howard, Kun Cheng, Jimmy May Overview Connecting directly to a SQL Azure database from a reporting tool (like Microsoft Excel and PowerPivot, or SQL Server...

Wanted to let the community know the SQL Server Product Group just released version 4.2 of the SQL Server Migration Assistant! With this version, Microsoft has announced the release of the first version of SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) for MySQL! Microsoft refreshed the existing SSMA...

The SQLCAT team and the SQL Azure team have been working closely together with a number of customers even before we launched our CTP (Community Technology Preview) in November, 2009 at the PDC (Professional Developers Conference). After our production release in January, 2010, we've continued working...