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

That public preview is part of the launch of the next version of SQL Server, which will be the first one that’s available for both Windows and Linux.

SQL Server 2016 shines with stretch database to Azure, queries against Hadoop, internal R, better security, and higher performance ...

SQL Server 2016 is by far the best of the SQL Server family, with its outstanding in-memory performance, new security innovations, and high availability - but that's not all. Database engine rankings ...