by Brian Prince Microsoft recently made the first community technology preview of SQL Azure Database ... users can have view dashboards like this. In SQL Server 2008 R2, Microsoft made a point ...

The multi-cloud control plane that lets you operate the new service is designed to look like an Azure service. It provides a complete view of your data and applications.

“This is basically a step towards appliance-sizing SQL Server for data warehousing … basically Microsoft taking on the responsibility for pretuning the database-to-hardware interface, which we ...