SQL Server 2019 builds on intelligent query processing features that were implemented in SQL Server 2017, and expands them to new areas of the database engine. Let's take a deeper dive into some ...

That’s up from $19,999 per processor, or $11,099 for a server and 25 user licenses, for the equivalent version of SQL Server 2000. The Standard Edition also carries a higher price tag.

You can leverage SQL Server 2016 to build, deploy and manage solutions that can be hosted either on premise or on the cloud. Note that as of this writing, SQL Server 2016 is still in its CTP.

Microsoft first outlined its most current SQL Server roadmap last month at its Business Intelligence (BI) Conference, also held in Seattle, where the company described Kilimanjaro as the next key ...

That means that Microsoft is limiting the amount of hardware resources you can throw at any of these features on SE or Web. So, if you want to run these features on a server with 128 CPUs and 1Tb of ...

I have taught several classes on the new features of SQL Server 2008, made a Web Seminar and written a Whitepaper on the subject. I have also attended the SQL PASS Summit in Seattle where there ...

In SQL Server 2016, this feature is vastly improved, supporting foreign keys, check and unique constraints and parallelism. Additionally, tables up to 2TB are now supported (up from 256GB).

The company plans to introduce SQL Server 2019 this week in Orlando, and it will also extend a key capability of its newest cloud database — Cosmos DB — to all Azure customers.

With any new release of a Microsoft product, there is a tremendous amount of new features and functionality introduced. The list above is just some of the top features included in SQL Server 2008.

The first service pack for SQL Server 2016 will give developers a consistent set of features across the Express, Standard and Enterprise editions. That means it’s possible to build an app that ...