Month: March 2019

First published on MSDN on Mar 03, 2016

Hi all,

The SQL Server 2016 RC0 will be out anytime soon. A preview for the SSIS community here

Below is the specific improvements we added for RC0:

… Continue reading What’s New for SSIS 2016 RC0?→

First published on MSDN on Feb 03, 2016

Hi all,

See what’s new for SSIS 2016 CTP3.3:

Download SQL Server 2016 CTP 3.3

is available today.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatfor… Continue reading What’s New for SSIS 2106 CTP3.3→

First published on MSDN on Jan 11, 2016

With the release of CTP3 SQL Server 2016 and its native In-database support for the open source R language (SQL Server R Services), users can now call both R and RevoScaleR functions and scri… Continue reading Operationalize your machine learning project using SQL Server 2016 SSIS and R Services→

Moving into the middle of the week of Game Developer’s Conference the show gets into the general sessions of talks and the expo floor opens up. It’s also the busiest day for our Gaming for Everyone team as we throw three community events in one day! Starting the day with brunch, Xbox hosted the 4th annual Celebrating Latinx in Gaming. Joining us this year was Unity who partnered to help make the event a success with their volunteer team and recruiters available to give career job search advice.  The event hosted over 280 gaming industry professionals, students, and allies from Latin… Continue reading Celebrating Latinx in Gaming 2019 Recap→

Have you ever played a racing game and thought to yourself: “I wish I could put a jet engine on this car. Maybe two … or five?” If you just said “YES!” out loud, then today is your lucky day because Trailmakers is launching onto Xbox One Game Preview. In Trailmakers you build your own vehicles out of building blocks, and pilot them through challenging race courses. You start out building a simple go-kart, but will eventually make buggies, jet cars and even airplanes. If everything goes as planned, your building skills will follow your driving skills and you’ll be an… Continue reading Build Your Own Cars, Planes, and Hovercrafts in Trailmakers→

First published on MSDN on Dec 17, 2015

There might be times when developing a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) package that you want to perform a lookup in order to supplement or validate the data in you data flow. A lookup … Continue reading Lookup transformation with Always Encrypted→

First published on MSDN on Dec 17, 2015

The released SQL Server 2016, currently available as

Community Technology Preview

, and Azure SQL Database introduced

Always Encrypted

, a new security feature t… Continue reading SSIS with Always Encrypted→

First published on MSDN on Dec 17, 2015

In SQL Server 2016 CTP3.2 release, MDS is introducing following features.

Purge Soft Deleted Members

You can now purge (permanently delete) all soft-deleted m… Continue reading Master Data Services – SQL2016 CTP3.2(December) is Released→