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Accelerate Your Insights: Watch the keynotes | Play Quest of the Cloudwalker | Learn about DevOps for IT pros

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Volume 16, Issue 8 | April 16, 2014




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Microsoft PDW: Modern data warehouse with big data analytics

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Microsoft-sponsored webinar: Taking In-Memory OLTP Mainstream

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