Microsoft's announcement also gave notice that a new Feature Pack for SQL Server 2014 SP3 is expected to arrive sometime in "mid-November 2018." A Feature Pack is a "standalone package" that adds ...

Microsoft's SQL Server toolbox is a complicated ecosystem, and differentiating one tool from another is a challenge. Vicky Harp, lead program manager of the SQL Server tools team, clarifies ...

Every cluster will include SQL Server, the Hadoop file system and Spark. As for the name, it’s worth noting that many pundits expected a “SQL Server 2018,” but Microsoft opted to skip a year ...

Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 were Microsoft’s most popular server and database management operating systems to date. Now, they are encroaching the tail-end of their 10-year lifecycle.

According to a blog post published this week, the SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 2 (SP2) includes cumulative released hotfixes as well new and improved features focused on performance, scalability and ...

An announcement last week by Microsoft's Customer Service and Support team indicated that Windows patches from Microsoft's July 10 'update Tuesday' release may have caused SQL Server failures after ...

With a host of improvements based on customer and SQL community feedback, the SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 2 was released by Microsoft.