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In this video we will talk about our new capability that allows developers to deploy some of our cognitive services as containers! Get ready for the intelligent edge! Process data in the cloud or on device at the edge, the choice is yours!Announcement:… Continue reading Using Cognitive Services in Containers | AI Show
Looking up to a crisp blue sky in a Metro game doesn’t seem quite right. It’s a suspicious new vision in a series known for carving a living out of resolutely detailed, subterranean hell. Metro has been elegant and perfectly dour in digging this hole for humanity, documenting the dwindling hopes of people that somehow persist in Moscow’s crumbling subway network, itself buried like a giant skeleton beneath an irradiated world-that-was. A blue sky in a harrowing game of survival just seems rude at this point, like a pop of festive funeral confetti. After playing a few hours of Metro… Continue reading Blue Skies are a Good Sign in Metro Exodus
Hello, Xbox Wire readers! I’m George Morgan, Product Manager for Curve Digital, and today I’m here to tell you about Smoke and Sacrifice, a narrative-driven RPG that’s available now on Xbox One. Smoke and Sacrifice follows the story of Sachi, a mother who due to a tradition lasting many years, is forced to sacrifice her first born son to The Sun Tree, an ancient piece of technology that provides sunlight to the dying wasteland that she and her fellow community live in. When Sachi gets a hint that maybe not everything is as it seems, she sets off on a… Continue reading Smoke and Sacrifice Available Now on Xbox One
Hi, Xbox Game Pass friends! Don’t want to freak you out, but we turned around today and suddenly there were even more games sitting on our desk. We’re going to need a bigger desk… and you’re going to need some free time, because there’s so many games on the way. We’re dropping four awesome games in the next two weeks, and you can sign up to get your first month for just $1, so if your crew isn’t already on the Xbox Game Pass hype train, tell them to get on that ASAP. Now let’s get to some details on… Continue reading Xbox Game Pass: We Happy Few, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, The LEGO Movie Videogame, and More
We are thrilled to announce that our new feature, email confirmation receipt has been available for all commercial customers.
Form designers can allow respondents to receive an email receipt of their responses by checking, “… Continue reading Email confirmation receipt is available in Microsoft Forms
First published on MSDN on Oct 19, 2018
What Is Optimizer Timeout?
SQL Server uses a cost-based query optimizer. Therefore, it selects a query plan with the lowest cost after it has built and examined multiple query plan… Continue reading Understanding Optimizer Timeout and how Complex queries can be Affected in SQL Server
First published on MSDN on Sep 08, 2018
I wrote an article to discuss about data movement latency between AG groups:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/psssql/2018/04/05/troubleshooting-data-movement-latency-between-synchronous-c… Continue reading AGLatency report tool V2.2 introduction
First published on MSDN on Jul 26, 2018
We have recently become aware of a regression in one of the TCP/IP functions that manages the TCP port pool which was introduced in the July 10, 2018 Windows updates for Windows 7/Server 2008 R2 … Continue reading July 10, 2018 Windows updates cause SQL startup issues due to “TCP port is already in use” errors