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.

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 ...

Today, Microsoft Malaysia launched SQL Server 2016, the next release of the company’s flagship business analytics and data management platform. Microsoft’s SQL Server 2016 is built to power the ...

Starting with SQL Server 2005, Microsoft allowed us to use column-level encryption natively within the database engine.

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 ...

While temporal data support is something that has existed in the past within other database platforms, it is a newly available feature with the RTM version of SQL Server 2016. In case you haven't ...