SQL Server 2016 Express: The company's free SQL Server offering comes with a very basic and stripped down version of the database system, with support for just four cores.

Don't need an enterprise-grade database on the cloud? Microsoft offers Azure customers a low-cost, lightweight SQL server option for testing and purposes and apps.

A step down from there is SQL Server 2016 Standard, which is limited to 24 cores, row-level security and policy-based management, support for JSON, some basic connectivity to R, and Stretch Database ...

Microsoft SQL Server 2016, the latest version of Redmond's core operational database, has reached GA. This release, which has been available in public preview for just over a year, is probably one ...

Now with SQL Server 2016, Microsoft has implemented an “Always Encrypted” option which includes end-to-end encryption without the need for application code changes therefore giving us a best ...

Today, Microsoft Malaysia launched SQL Server 2016, the next release of the company’s flagship business analytics and data management platform. Microsoft’s SQL Server 2016 is built to power the ...

A step down from there is SQL Server 2016 Standard, which is limited to 24 cores, row-level security and policy-based management, support for JSON, some basic connectivity to R, and Stretch Database ...