Microsoft announced the availability of SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 2 (SP2) on Tuesday. The SP2 release is currently available through the Microsoft Download Center. The publish date is shown as ...

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 SQL Server 2016, the latest version of Redmond's core operational database, has reached GA. This release, which has been available in public preview for just over a year, is probably one of ...

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Microsoft this week announced that SQL Server 2016 will be generally available June 1. It will deliver an end-to-end data management and business analytics solution with mission-critical intelligence, ...

As part of the SQL Server 2016 launch event, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced a commercial database promotion that provides customers with free licenses if you are running a competitor’s platform ...

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).

The second service pack for Microsoft's flagship RDBMS, SQL Server 2016, shipped this month. According to a blog post published this week, the SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 2 (SP2) includes cumulative ...

With a host of improvements based on customer and SQL community feedback, the SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 2 (SP2) was released by Microsoft. Microsoft said the new release contains a roll-up of ...