SQL Server 2014 and the SQL Server Backup to Microsoft Azure Tool both hit their "general availability" milestones today. Earlier this month, the SQL Server 2014 product was at the ...

What Is The Difference Between Sql Server Editions? Most people know that SQL Express differs from other editions by the maximum database size (10GB) it allows and by its lack of SQL Agent. Below are ...

Microsoft released to manufacturing the latest version of its SQL Server database, SQL Server 2014, on March 18. SQL Server 2014 will be available to customers as of April 1. The newest version of SQL ...

Microsoft provided "performance, scalability and diagnostics improvements" in this week's release of SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 3 (SP3). The company's announcement of the release comes about two ...

Microsoft today announced the availability of its SQL Server 2014 Community Technology Preview 2 (CTP2) version for testing. The product, first announced in June, continues much of the technologies of ...

Perhaps this is your first time reading my column or you don’t know much about SQL Server. If either of those are true, then it might be a surprise to you that Microsoft has accelerated the release ...

No fooling: The next version of Microsoft's flagship database will be available on April 1. SQL Server 2014 hit its "release-to-manufacturing" milestone today, which typically falls several weeks ...

SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 3 (SP3) was announced on Wednesday, about two years after the release of SP2. SP3 is a cumulative update, which means that it'll upgrade "all editions and service levels ...

Last year, Microsoft officials said the next version of its SQL Server database would include built-in in-memory online transaction processing (OLTP) technology. That was all they'd say at that point ...

The next version of Microsoft’s relational database management system (RDMS) promises to bring immense performance gains to online transactional processing systems. SQL Server 2014 will come with a ...

If you haven't installed SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 1, keep it that way. If you have installed the service pack, you may be regretting it. Microsoft pulled it last week after install errors surfaced ...

SQL Server isn't on the kind of update schedule that characterizes Visual Studio these days, when it's unusual for two months to go by without some sort of release. But one version is getting a new ...