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 Linux version of Microsoft SQL Server 2016 v.Next is a viable option for customers who want to deploy the RDBMS on an open source platform, but the early previews lack some features of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Now with SQL Server 2016, Microsoft has implemented an “Always Encrypted” option which includes end-to-end encryption without the need for application code changes therefore giving us a best ...

SQL Server 2016 shines with stretch database to Azure, queries against Hadoop, internal R, better security, and higher performance ...

In-Depth What Makes SQL Server 2016 a Game-Changer Polybase, Query Store, dynamic data masking, row-level security, and temporal data JSON support -- just some of the new features that veteran SQL ...

SQL Server 2016 is by far the best of the SQL Server family, with its outstanding in-memory performance, new security innovations, and high availability - but that's not all. Database engine rankings ...