Power Map Samples for Excel 2013 and 2016 Microsoft Power Map is an Excel based Add-In which provides a three-dimensional (3-D) data visualization tool ...

Introduction to SQL Server Sample Databases To get started with Microsoft SQL Server for demonstrations & training you need some sample databases to ...

Introduction to Azure SQL Data Warehouse Azure SQL Data Warehouse is an an elastic data warehouse as a service with enterprise-class features with distributed ...

SQL Server 2016 is designed to work faster than any earlier version of SQL Server. There was a set of tweaking that was ...

SQL Server Diagnostics Best Practices I have already spoken about Free SQL Server tools for analysing SQL Server performance in a previous post. ...

Best Practices for Configuring SQL on Azure IaaS VM Running SQL Server workloads on Azure as IAAS (Infrastructure as a service) is becoming ...

Comparing SQL Server in Azure IAAS VM with Azure SQL Database There has been quite a lot of discussion about how Azure SQL ...

Important Login and Download Links for Office 365 Microsoft’s Cloud based collaboration Office 365 helps organizations improve collaboration using modern social technologies to ...

SQL Server Always On Availability Groups I have already spoken about other high availability technologies like Log-Shipping, Database Mirroring, and Failover Clustering. I also ...

SQL Server Hybrid Approaches for High Availability SQL Server High Availability technologies already gives you a lot of flexibility to fit diverse deployment ...