Late last year, Microsoft published a roadmap for its cloud and server integration products, featuring BizTalk Server 2016. As promised on that roadmap, the first technology preview of BizTalk Server ...

SQL Server 2008 R2, which ships this month, allows end users to tap into the powerful business intelligence features of SQL Server via tight integration with popular Microsoft applications like Excel.

Microsoft on Thursday released Service Pack 3 (SP3) for SQL Server 2008. The new service pack arrives about one year after the release of Service Pack 2. SP3 contains a lot of fixes to the earlier ...

Visual Studio 2022 has been out for some eight months now, but it still lacks full support for SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), a top feature request.

Opalis Integration Server (OIS), a new member to Microsoft’s System Center Suite, automates end-to-end processes by traversing organizational boundaries, reducing operational costs, and improving ...

At PASS Summit 2017, Microsoft announced SQL Operations Studio to help devs and admins monitor database performance and boost efficiency while Azure picked up a new "compute-optimized" service tier.

SQL Server 2005's Integration Services feature fulfills the core needs of ETL (Extract Transform and Load) within the enterprise. This technology isn't your old Data Transformation Services (DTS), but ...

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 ...