Microsoft’s announcement that it was bringing its flagship SQL Server database software to Linux came as a major surprise when the company first announced this in March. Until now, the preview ...

One of the long-standing differentiators between SQL Server's Enterprise Edition (EE) and Standard Edition (SE), besides price, were the large number of features available only in EE. This is also ...

Microsoft's latest SQL Server 2016 has been in testing stages for over a year now, with the current version, SQL Server 2016 RC3, available for download. Microsoft said that the current test ...

As part of the SQL Server 2016 launch event, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced a commercial database promotion that provides customers with free licenses if you are running a competitor’s ...

In-Depth What Makes SQL Server 2016 a Game-Changer Polybase, Query Store, dynamic data masking, row-level security, and temporal data JSON support -- just some of the new features that veteran SQL ...

In conjunction with the release of SQL Server 2016, Microsoft has announced that the Developer Edition of SQL Server will be free.

Microsoft on Monday announced that its SQL Server 2016 database system will be coming to the Linux platform.

Microsoft has unveiled a version of SQL Server, a flagship database program, for Linux. That's right -- you can get a major Microsoft data center app without having to touch Windows.

Now with SQL Server 2016, Microsoft has implemented an “Always Encrypted” option which includes end-to-end encryption without the need for application code changes therefore giving us a best ...