Microsoft this week released service pack 2 (SP2) of SQL Server 2016, nearly a year and a half after releasing SP1.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 26, 2018
Microsoft recently launched previews of new Azure SQL Database improvements that are aimed at helping organizations move their workloads into the Azure cloud from on-premises database management systems.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 12, 2018
Microsoft's new SQL Server 2017 product, which was launched at this week's Ignite conference, will feature a faster update release pace, the company said in an announcement.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 29, 2017
Just 15 months after releasing SQL Server 2016, Microsoft on Monday launched its follow-up, SQL Server 2017, during the Ignite conference in Orlando, Fla.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- September 25, 2017
Microsoft and Red Hat together issued several announcements this week that signal an extension of their efforts around running Red Hat's open source technologies on Microsoft's Azure infrastructure.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 23, 2017
SQL Server 2017, Microsoft's next-generation relational database platform, is inching closer to general availability with this week's Release Candidate 1 (RC1) rollout.
- By Chris Paoli
- July 18, 2017
Organizations anticipating difficulties in carrying out future Windows Server or SQL Server upgrades can now purchase insurance-type plans from Microsoft.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 03, 2017
Microsoft is extending its patching support for Windows Server or SQL Server products by six years with the introduction of new licensing models.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 09, 2016
Microsoft announced the first service pack (SP1) of its SQL Server 2016 product on Wednesday at its Connect() developer conference, taking place this week in New York.
- By Chris Paoli
- November 16, 2016
Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Microsoft's elastic cloud computing platform, became generally available on Tuesday.
- By Chris Paoli
- July 12, 2016
Microsoft's next-generation database platform, SQL Server 2016, became generally available on Wednesday as scheduled.
- By Chris Paoli
- June 01, 2016
Companies with Enterprise Agreements (EAs) can now use prebuilt images to move their existing SQL Server licenses to Azure Virtual Machines (VMs).
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 01, 2016
Microsoft's next-generation relational database operating system will become publicly available on June 1, the company announced Monday.
- By Chris Paoli
- May 02, 2016
Microsoft recently issued the final release candidate (RC) of its upcoming SQL Server 2016 product.
- By Chris Paoli
- April 19, 2016
Tuesday marked the end of SQL Server 2005's "extended support" phase, meaning Microsoft's 10-year-old database server will no longer get patch support from the company.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 12, 2016
Microsoft has issued another release candidate (RC) of SQL Server 2016, signaling that the upcoming database system is nearly feature-complete.
- By David Ramel
- March 22, 2016
The spotlight was on SQL Server 2016 at Thursday's Data Driven conference, where Microsoft gave its case for enterprises to ditch Oracle's database system for its own.
- By David Ramel
- March 10, 2016
Microsoft on Monday issued a release candidate (RC0) of its upcoming SQL Server 2016 database system, as well as announced its plans to enable SQL Server to run on Linux.
- By David Ramel
- March 07, 2016
Several Microsoft products, including SQL Server 2005 and some versions of Internet Explorer and .NET Framework 4, will hit their "extended support" deadline this year.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 04, 2016
Microsoft on Wednesday announced a number of data-related releases, including a new community technology preview (CTP) of its upcoming SQL Server 2016 product.
- By David Ramel
- October 28, 2015