Microsoft SQL Server 2016, the company’s flagship database software, will be released on June 1. The much-anticipated SQL Server 2016 will become generally available to consumers in all four versions, ...

Maxer's latest thread reminded me of a problem I came across awhile ago but never solved. Let's say I have a set of items, a strict ordering of them, and a constraint that some subsets are mutually ...

Microsoft announced today that SQL Server 2008 R2 is released to manufacturing just 20 months after SQL Server 2008, the platform on which it is built. SQL Server 2008 R2 (codenamed Kilimanjaro) ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Last month, I met with Microsofts James Hamilton, an ...

Microsoft packed SQL Server 2016 with new advanced features that are supposed to help it compete with a host of other database software. But some of the advanced capabilities in the relational ...

Under Microsoft's new pricing structure, it's about to get a lot more expensive for some businesses to use SQL Server. The increased fees are mostly due to Microsoft's move from using processors to ...