Microsoft is readying a first public preview of its next version of SQL Server, called SQL Server 2016, for delivery this summer. The successor to SQL Server 2014 will include enhanced in-memory ...

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. Last week Microsoft released the preview of SQL Server 2016 ...

While the last two versions of SQL Server focused on improving performance by offering new features, SQL Server 2016 looks inwards towards improving existing functionality.

Back to their blog. They take a lot of time to provide lucid and detailed explanations of how the internals within SQL Server work and, most pertinent to this discussion, reveal the mysteries of why ...

Microsoft today announced that its next SQL Server version will hit general availability status on June 1.

SQL Server 2016’s June 1 release date was first announced last month, when Microsoft also confirmed most of the new features users could expect. Among the main enhancements are updateable, in ...

SQL Server is Microsoft’s flagship database product and has been in use for more than a decade. Microsoft’s SQL Server 2016 provides a comprehensive high-end database solution — a complete ...

With SQL Server 2016, Microsoft is also now giving its customers to stretch their database to Azure in case they need a bit more power than their on-premise servers can offer.

Microsoft is inching closer to rolling out SQL Server 2016, with the near-final release candidate due out any day now.

Dino Esposito explains JSON-to-rowset native support in SQL Server 2016 and provides a realistic perspective of data query when you have JSON data stored in the database.

While the on-premises version of SQL Server 2016 is still making its way to general availability, Microsoft has actually been using the same codebase to power Azure’s SQL database service.