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) ...

Microsoft is readying a first public preview of its next version of SQL Server, called SQL Server 2016, for delivery this summer. The successor to SQL Server 2014 will include enhanced in-memory ...

Add a new command Set-SqlDscDatabasePerformance to configure database-scoped performance and optimization properties for SQL Server. This command enables organizations to control parallelism, ...

The announcement was made at the PASS Summit, which is the de facto Microsoft-endorsed SQL Server conference, and one where database administrators (DBAs) dominate the audience. In presenting PolyBase ...