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 ...

SQL Server and Azure SQL Database have a property called compatibility level. Microsoft supports compatibility levels back to SQL Server 2008 and has committed to keep those in newer releases of the ...

Microsoft SQL Server 2016 is a relational database management system (DBMS) for Windows platforms that can be used for building, deploying and managing applications located on premises or in the cloud ...

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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 ...

As a heavy user of other RDBMS data platforms, I have long appreciated the extra effort that Microsoft put into their data management and administration tool, the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).

This book is aimed at those new to SQL Server, or those with a basic understanding wanting to learn more. How does it fare? Beginnings are important. A bad start can stop you in your tracks and divert ...

For most of the last decade, Microsoft made it inexpensive to wait. Each time an SQL Server version reached the end of its extended support – 2008, 2012, 2014 – the same escape hatch was available.

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With SQL Server 2016, you can store JSON objects in your rows. Here’s how to work with JSON objects, including how to update them once you’ve found them. In a previous Practical .NET column I showed ...

SQL Server is primarily built around a row-based table structure that connects related data elements in different tables to one another, avoiding the need to redundantly store data in multiple places ...

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