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Blog post series to highlight new features and enhancements available with SQL Server 2016. Data, and the ability to extract actionable intelligence from it, is driving transformation in how we do ...

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).

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Download SQL Server 2016 from the Evaluation Center Have an Azure account? Then go Here to spin up a Virtual Machine with SQL Server 2016 SP1 already installed. To get the latest version of SQL Server ...

This tutorial helps you understand how to use the Azure Blob Storage for data files and backups in [!INCLUDE sssql16-md] and later versions. Support for Azure Blob Storage in SQL Server was introduced ...

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 ...

SQL Server 2016, the next major release of Microsoft’s flagship database and analytics platform (which is available as a Community Technology Preview [CTP] as of this writing), includes exciting ...