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 ...

The SQL Server team is unleashing the first widespread test builds of the next version of Microsoft's database, a k a ""="">). Earlier this year, Microsoft officials said to watch for a Community ...

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 ...

Microsoft is looking to bulk up SQL Server in the hopes of winning new customers and has fleshed out plans for the upcoming Datacenter and Parallel Data Warehouse versions of the popular database.

Microsoft made available for download on September 20 a Customer Technology Preview (CTP) test build of a first update to its SQL Server 2012, the latest version of its database. Microsoft released to ...

One highlight of this roll-up release is the addition of row-level security and dynamic data masking, which were only available in the Enterprise version, are now in Standard, Express, and other ...

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 ...

Microsoft is changing some of its licensing rules, which are already complex. Here’s what small businesses should know.

The company announced the Datacenter edition of the server, for scaling up online transaction processing, and the Parallel Data Warehouse version, which can support hundreds of terabytes of data ...