Top 7 Features Coming to SQL Server 2016 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.

SQL Server 2016’s new stretch database feature promises to offer local server performance for hot data and cloud storage for old data without any change to the application. The basic use case is ...

SQL Server 2016: The database for mission critical intelligence The world around us, every business and nearly every industry, is being transformed by technology.

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 ...

Now keep in mind that Mark and I have known each other since the 1990s when SQL Server was just being ported to a brand new operating system called Windows NT. Mark and I were having a laugh and more ...

By using a single tool like PowerShell, you can access your data wherever it is stored. It does not matter if it is in the cloud in an Azure SQL database or in an on-premises MS-SQL server, MySQL or ...

In general, Microsoft improved database backup performance for "large memory machines" in SQL Server 2016 SP2. Performance also was enhanced by the addition of "backup compression support." ...