Deep Rock Galactic Celebrates a Rock Solid Year on Xbox Game Preview

Today marks one year since Deep Rock Galactic, our co-op first, dwarven mining space shooter, launched as a console exclusive on Xbox Game Preview. Developing Deep Rock Galactic alongside our community has been, and continues to be a truly awesome experience  and we have to thank each and every miner who has joined the initiative this past year. I wanted to take this opportunity to look back at our first year on the platform, update you on today’s in-game festivities, and give an insight into our experience working on Deep Rock in open development. To celebrate our first birthday, we’ve… Continue reading Deep Rock Galactic Celebrates a Rock Solid Year on Xbox Game Preview

Reduced recompilations for workloads using temporary tables across multiple scopes

SQL Server 2019 introduces several performance optimizations which will improve performance with minimal changes required to your application code.   In this blog post we’ll discuss one such improvement available in CTP 2.3: reduced recompilations for workloads using temporary tables in multiple scopes. In order to understand this improvement, we’ll first go over the current behavior… Continue reading Reduced recompilations for workloads using temporary tables across multiple scopes

Become Your True Self in Black Desert, Available Now on Xbox One

Today is the official launch of Black Desert, the revolutionary MMORPG that brings you a living and shared open world that’s home to thousands of other players. Guided by the Black Spirit through the war-ravaged lands of Calpheon and Valencia, it’s your choice how you’d like to journey through your adventure. Whether you decide to team up with other players to engage in real-time combat, building your life skills through fishing, horse training, and alchemy, or joining a guild – Black Desert gives you the freedom to become your true self, starting right now. First things first – new players… Continue reading Become Your True Self in Black Desert, Available Now on Xbox One

Known issue: LCS Support flow questions not displaying

Recent system updates to the LCS Support flow framework have prevented some questions from displaying for the Incident details steps when a support case is created. The missing questions are Problem type, Problem area, and related sub-questions. However, this does not prevent users from submitting a support case. We are actively working to resolve this issue… Continue reading Known issue: LCS Support flow questions not displaying

First steps with Docker and Kubernetes – Moving to Azure Kubernetes Service

In the previous post we have learned some basic concepts of Kubernetes and how it helps us to leverage Docker containers in a better way. However, the samples we used in the previous post have been helpful to understand the basics, but t… Continue reading First steps with Docker and Kubernetes – Moving to Azure Kubernetes Service

TWO NEW ARTICLES: IBM Db2 pureScale on Azure and Deploy IBM Db2 pureScale on Azure

First published on MSDN on Nov 28, 2018 Written by Larry Mead from AzureCAT. Edited by John Kaiser and Nanette Ray. Reviewed by Benjamin Guinebertière.

IBM Db2 pureScale on Azure
Deploy IBM Db2 pureScale on Azure

The IBM Db2 pureScale en… Continue reading TWO NEW ARTICLES: IBM Db2 pureScale on Azure and Deploy IBM Db2 pureScale on Azure

Azure Data Architecture Guide – Blog #6: Business intelligence

First published on MSDN on Nov 29, 2018 In this sixth blog entry, we’ll continue to explore the Azure Data Architecture Guide. The previous entries in this blog series are:

Azure Data Architecture Guide – Blog #1: Introduction
Azure Data … Continue reading Azure Data Architecture Guide – Blog #6: Business intelligence