Windows Server 2016, not likely to arrive until the second half of next year, is going to shake up the way Microsoft licenses its server operating system, moving away from per socket licensing to per ...

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A new, more analytics-friendly version of Microsoft's flagship database hit the streets today. SQL Server 2016, which has been in different forms of closed and public testing over the last year, makes ...

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 core ...