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 ...

Take advantage of the mission-critical capabilities in SQL Server 2016 for real time operational analytics, rich data visualizations and improved data security SQL Server is Microsoft’s flagship ...

The next version of SQL Server, Microsoft’s flagship database product, will launch on June 1, the company announced today. The release follows Microsoft’s usual round of public previews and release ...

DBAs have many options for how to ensure high availability (HA) for SQL Server. Some of these options are available in the different versions and editions of SQL Server itself. Some are available in ...

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Hong Kong, March 18, 2016 – Every business and nearly every industry is being transformed by technology. This disruption is driven, in part, by the convergence of three trends: a massive explosion 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 ...