Top 7 Features Coming to SQL Server 2016 SQL 2016 has a number of major enhancements which will help whether or not you are implementing on-prem, in Azure or in a hybrid model.

SQL Server 2016’s new stretch database feature promises to offer local server performance for hot data and cloud storage for old data without any change to the application.

SQL Server 2016: The database for mission critical intelligence The world around us, every business and nearly every industry, is being transformed by technology.

Microsoft SQL Server 2016, the latest version of Redmond's core operational database, has reached GA. This release, which has been available in public preview for just over a year, is probably one ...

Microsoft announced the availability of SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 2 on Tuesday.

I had the pleasure to spend some time with my old friend Mark Souza, a general manager in the Data Platform team at Microsoft, while speaking at the SQL Saturday event in Dublin, Ireland. Now keep in ...

Some DBAs using SQL Server products today weren’t even born in 1989, when we released the first version. That’s a tradition we take very seriously, and so with SQL Server 2016, Microsoft is ...

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 ...