Microsoft announced this week that a faster update release pace will be coming to its newly announced SQL Server 2017 product.

SQL Server 2017 thus joins the faster service-enabled update approach that's been seen of late with Windows 10, Office 365 ProPlus and even Windows Server 2016, which will start a faster update ...

Interest in SQL Server for Linux seems high; during its preview period, there have been some 2 million downloads of the SQL Server for Linux Docker image. While SQL Server looks costly compared to ...

Announcing SQL Server 2017 Release Candidate 1Microsoft announced the first release candidate (a.k.a. RC1) for SQL Server 2017 on Monday, July 17 th. Release candidates are not a final and finished ...

Microsoft's recently released SQL Server 2017 is off to a strong start, and the company looks to keep the momentum going with new tools and blistering performance.

Review: SQL Server 2017 adds Python, graph processing and runs on Linux Integration of Python for data science, graph processing for NoSQL-like functionality, and it runs on Linux as well as Windows.

At PASS Summit 2017, Microsoft announced SQL Operations Studio to help devs and admins monitor database performance and boost efficiency while Azure picked up a new "compute-optimized" service tier.

From Python to adaptive query optimization to the many cloud-focused changes (not to mention Linux!), Joey D'Antoni takes you through the major changes coming to SQL Server 2017.