The top 5 reasons to upgrade to SQL Server 2016
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Five reasons to run SQL Server 2016 on Windows Server 2016 – No. 2: Performance and cost
Imagine you’ve just bought a super powerful car with built-in advanced technology to make it perform at its highest. -
Five reasons to run SQL Server 2016 on Windows Server 2016 — No. 1: Security
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SQL Server named DBMS of the Year by DB-Engines
SQL Server was recently named DBMS of the Year by DB-Engines. -
Announcing Columnstore Indexes and Query Store support in Database Engine Tuning Advisor
The latest version of Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine Tuning Advisor (DTA) supports two new features: (a) Ability to recommend columnstore indexes in addition to rowstore indexes, and (b) Ability to automatically select a workload to tune from the Query Store. -
Welcome 2017! Recap of top SQL Server posts of 2016
We start off the new year with a quick recap of our most popular posts on this blog channel from the year just concluded. -
Microsoft releases the latest update to Analytics Platform System
Microsoft is pleased to announce that the appliance update, Analytics Platform System (APS) 2016, has been released to manufacturing and is now generally available. -
SQL Server 2016 SP1 brings new innovation opportunities to software partners
This post was authored by Tiffany Wissner, Senior Director of Data Platform Marketing Yesterday at Connect(); we announced SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1 (SP1), which introduces a common programming surface across SQL Server editions. -
SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1 generally available
This post was authored by Tiffany Wissner, Senior Director of Data Platform Marketing Microsoft is pleased to announce the availability of SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1 (SP1). -
Free eBook: Using SQL Server 2016 for Data Science & Advanced Analytics
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SQL Server as a Machine Learning Model Management System
This post was authored by Rimma Nehme, Technical Assistant, Data Group Machine Learning Model Management If you are a data scientist, business analyst or a machine learning engineer, you need model management – a system that manages and orchestrates the entire lifecycle of your learning model. -
SQL Server 2016 Express Edition in Windows containers
We are excited to announce the public availability of SQL Server 2016 Express Edition in Windows Containers! The image is now available on Docker Hub and the build scripts are hosted on our SQL Server Samples GitHub repository.
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