SQL Server 2016 provides real-time insights across your transactional and analytical data, from advanced analytics to unparalleled in-memory performance.

Microsoft has posted a preview release of its new SQL Server ODBC Driver for Linux, which enables access to Microsoft SQL Server databases from Linux operating systems.

The session will take place on Wednesday, 10 September 2025, from 10-11am SAST. You will hear from experts. You will see demonstrations. Most importantly, you will walk away with insights you can use ...

Hekaton, Microsoft's coming in-memory database engine, will be built into the next version of SQL Server. Meanwhile, SQL Server 2012 SP1 is now generally available.

Last week Microsoft released the preview of SQL Server 2016 (versioned as Consumer Technology Preview (CTP) 2.0). In a slight contrast to other recent releases of SQL Server, 2016 is not as ...

SQL Server 2019 leverages PolyBase for full-on data virtualization and combines its Linux/container compatibility with Kubernetes (K8s) to deliver a new technology called Big Data Clusters (BDC).

Microsoft donates faster querying technology to Hadoop's Hive and Stinger subprojects, but it isn't giving away the farm ...

How an old Drawbridge helped Microsoft bring SQL Server to Linux There are certainly risks involved, but a clever research project makes it all possible.

Seattle Sounders score with SQL Server and fitness-tracking technology By Athima Chansanchai 20 November, 2014 Microsoft News Center Staff ...

This isn’t a good month for IT admins to take time off if they want to get ahead of all the patches Microsoft pushed out this ...