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Microsoft Introduces the Cloud-Ready Information Platform 

TechEd North America is upon us today and we couldn’t be more thrilled. Microsoft continues to evolve and invest in the Information Platform and today during the TechEd Foundational Session, Microsoft SQL Server: The Data and BI Platform for Today and Tomorrow, Quentin Clark, Corporate Vice President  spoke to the Microsoft Cloud-Ready Information Platform.
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Visualize This: Take our PowerPivot Quiz and Win an Xbox 360 

What kind of PowerPivot nerd are you? A Numbers Ninja? A Data Mining Wizard? Find out by taking our Nerdtastic PowerPivot Quiz on Facebook. Besides learning if you’re the nerdiest PowerPivot user of them all, you’ll automatically be entered to win an Xbox 360 + Kinect just for participating.
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SQL Server Migration Assistant v5.0 is now available 

      Migrate from Sybase, Oracle, MySQL and Microsoft Access to SQL Azure and SQL Server with ease! Microsoft announced today the release of SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) v5.0, a family of products to further simplify the user experience in automating the migration of Oracle, Sybase, MySQL and Microsoft Access databases to SQL server or SQL Azure.
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SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 CTP Now Available for Testing 

SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 CTP contains cumulative updates 1-6 for SQL Server 2008 R2, and fixes to issues that have been reported through our customer feedback platforms.  These include supportability enhancements and issues that have been reported through Windows Error Reporting.
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Participate in the SQL Server Twitter Challenge! 

We have looked high and low for anything with the SQL Server logo and have managed to pull together some stuff to give away to our Twitter followers! We will ask 12 questions about SQL Server on our official Twitter channel at approximately 10:00AM PDT (-8:00 GMT) on each Tuesday and Friday between April 7th, 2011 through June 7th, 2011.
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Microsoft Announces Additional Details about System Center Advisor (formerly codename “Atlanta”) 

At the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) Summit last November, Microsoft announced System Center codename “Atlanta.”  Since then, you have told us how excited you are about this new service; a cloud-based service that enables IT pros to assess their SQL Server configuration and proactively avoid problems. This excitement showed in your tremendous participation during the beta program.
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Virtualize SQL Server with Hyper-V and System Center 

At this week’s Microsoft Management Summit conference (MMS), we are discussing how we are taking virtualization beyond OS and Infrastructure, with SQL Server as a key workload and an important element of a Private Cloud Platform. And why wouldn’t customers virtualize SQL Server with Hyper-V and System Center?