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 platform ...

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Microsoft announced the availability of SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 2 (SP2) on Tuesday. The SP2 release is currently available through the Microsoft Download Center. The publish date is shown as ...

Microsoft announced late last week that the final SQL Server 2016 release candidate is now available. The company said that, along with being the fourth publicly released version, it will be the last ...

Microsoft is making available to anyone who wants to kick the tires a first public preview release of its coming SQL Server 2016 on-premises database. Testers can download what's called SQL Server ...

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 of ...

With a host of improvements based on customer and SQL community feedback, the SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 2 (SP2) was released by Microsoft. Microsoft said the new release contains a roll-up of ...

A few days ago, Microsoft shocked us when it announced that it would soon bring its SQL Server database to Linux. It’ll take until 2017 before SQL Server will be available on Linux, though. Until then ...

Microsoft laid out the case for enterprises to ditch Oracle's database system for its own at this week's Data Driven conference in New York City. Exec Judson Althoff detailed a SQL Server 2016/Oracle ...

In the rollup to a big wave of launch activities for SQL Server 2016 this Thursday, Microsoft announced today that it plans to bring its flagship relational database system to the open source Linux ...