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This blog provides information, news, tips, and announcements about the SQL Server Data Quality Services (DQS) feature introduced in SQL Server 2012.

Insider news about Microsoft's Data Platform technologies, which include SQL Server.

Information, tips, news and announcements about PowerPivot (formerly known as Gemini) directly from the product team.

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SQL Server Compact is a SKU of SQL Server family of products from Microsoft. This is a thin light-weight, embedded, in-proc database engine which supports synchronization to SQL Server, etc.

Best practices and lessons learned from the most demanding SQL Server implementations in the world.

The SQL Server team gives you the latest SQL Server Express news, tips and insights on using Express, migrating from Express to SQL Server, and more.

The Manageability team offers tools, scripts, webcasts, and miscellaneous tips that will help you get the most out of SQL Server.

Get best practices, tips, benchmarks, troubleshooting and monitoring for SQL Server, ADO.NET, Analysis Services, and SSIS.

Discussions related to Microsoft's SQL Server Protocols - Netlibs, TDS and (new for SQL 2005) SOAP. Topics include connections and SQL connectivity.

The official team Web Log for Microsoft CSS SQL Support. Posts are mostly provided by the CSS SQL Escalation Services team.

Tips, tricks, and advice from the SQL Server Query Optimization Team.

Learn about all things data storage related.