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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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 today announced that its next SQL Server version will hit general availability status on June 1. In a blog posted by Tiffany Wissner, senior director of Microsoft's Data Platform Marketing ...

“Data is the new electricity for businesses today. It gives our customers the opportunity to catapult their growth. Microsoft’s SQL Server 2016 is built for this data driven world – customer tested ...

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 was ...