Microsoft is allowing testers to register, as of December 7, for a public Community Technology Preview (CTP) test build of the reporting services technology for its SQL Azure cloud database. Microsoft ...

Microsoft's announcement of its Windows Azure spring update included a lot of moving parts. One that didn't get as much attention as it deserved was the the general availability of reporting services ...

The clouds came out on Day 2 of the SQL PASS Summit, which is ongoing this week in Seattle, with Microsoft announcing a new SQL Azure release and new features to come. Microsoft indicated that a new ...

Microsoft has released another cloud-based development tool with the general availability of Windows Azure SQL Reporting. The service, formerly known as SQL Azure Reporting Services, is being offered ...

At the second day of the SQL PASS Summit in Seattle, Microsoft announcing a new SQL Azure release as well as some completely new features. Microsoft indicated the improvements planned for the next ...

Microsoft announced a Windows Azure price decrease last week for its SQL Reporting Services, which is used for business intelligence-type applications. The price decrease comes in association with a ...

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A new report from research firm GigaOm indicated that SQL Server runs faster on virtual machines on Micrososft's Azure cloud than on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) compute instances (EC2). Sponsored by ...

Microsoft issued the fourth-quarter service release of its Windows Azure cloud computing platform on Saturday, with an emphasis on open source interoperability improvements, expanded database capacity ...