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Community Technology Preview (CTP)

The Community Technology Preview (CTP) is an early version of a Microsoft product that is released to testers during the software development process. Microsoft releases several CTPs for each product, adding new features, updating pre-existing ones and fixing bugs with each release.

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Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system, or RDBMS, that supports a wide variety of transaction processing, business intelligence and analytics applications in corporate IT environments

SQL Azure

SQL Azure is Microsoft’s cloud database service.

SQL Server 2014

SQL Server 2014 is relational database management system (RDBMS) designed for the enterprise environment.

ThoughtSpot BI platform an early adopter of AI

Due to AI, ThoughtSpot's analytics tools have been accessible to citizen data scientists from the start, Andrew Yeung, the ...

ThoughtSpot 6 advances AI power of BI platform

New augmented intelligence and machine learning tools, along with a new mobile app, highlight the release of the new update to ...

Promethium tool taps natural language processing for analytics

The software, called Data Navigation System, was designed to enable non-technical users to make complex SQL requests using plain ...

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Essential private cloud migration steps

Executive buy-in, application evaluation and tool configuration are all important parts of cloud selection. With these steps, ...

IBM quantum computers' usefulness in sight -- using binoculars

IBM's Bob Sutor discusses Big Blue's new quantum systems and computation center, the realities of quantum computing today and how...

Addendum sets ASHRAE 90.4 as energy-efficiency standard

The publication of ASHRAE 90.4 in 2016 brought a new set of energy guidelines, but the industry still used Standard 90.1. A new ...

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PostgreSQL 12 boosts open source database performance

Widely used open source PostgreSQL database platform gets a major update providing users with new SQL query capabilities for JSON...

Data integration vs. ETL in the age of big data

Data integration provides a consistent view of business performance across multiple data sources, though it needs to keep up with...

5 steps to an improved data quality assurance plan

Consultant David Loshin offers tips on developing a data quality strategy that can help identify data errors before they cause ...

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AWS' open source entreaties now include cloud credits

AWS will offer promotional cloud credits to open source project maintainers that meet certain criteria. The move comes after ...

Amazon wraps Oracle to AWS migration, looks to poach workloads

Amazon has moved its consumer division's IT operations off of Oracle's database and onto AWS services, a towering effort that ...

Amplify improvements streamline AWS mobile app development

Once just an open source Java library, AWS Amplify is now a full-fledged AWS mobile app development platform. Learn how it works ...

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Oracle OpenWorld 2019 coverage: Oracle seeks loftier cloud perch

This guide covers technology developments and other news from the Oracle OpenWorld 2019 conference, plus key trends for Oracle ...

Oracle applications development EVP on Fusion, SaaS and what's ahead

Steve Miranda discusses lessons learned from Oracle Fusion Applications, SaaS, best-of-breed apps vs. suites and Oracle's ...

The roots of Oracle's cloud evolution: A 20-year review

Oracle, like other prominent on-premises software vendors, has traced a long path into the cloud. These 10 events over the past ...

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Digital asset management benefits the future of work

Digital asset management promises to transform digital work, making it easier to tag documents, analyze video and provide image ...

Box cloud content management adds PDF tools, boosts security

Box partners with Adobe in releasing a new set of PDF tools that can be used within Box's content management cloud to enable ...

AI optimizes content management workflows, personalizes CX

AI is poised to revolutionize content management workflows, bringing order to enterprise documents, greater insights into ...

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What's new with the Exchange hybrid configuration wizard?

The Exchange configuration wizard continues to evolve into a refined utility with enhanced capabilities that administrators ...

Top Office 365 MFA considerations for administrators

A complex password only goes so far to stop a breach. Implementing multifactor authorization can help, but make sure the product ...

October Patch Tuesday resolves 59 vulnerabilities

Microsoft attempts to stamp out printing issues that originated from a faulty out-of-band patch for an Internet Explorer zero-day.