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Best Practices April 5, 2017 2 min read

The top 5 reasons to upgrade to SQL Server 2016

Upgrading your software can be daunting, we know. The fast pace of business makes it easy to tell yourself, “I’ll do it later when I have time.

Best Practices March 30, 2017 3 min read

Five reasons to run SQL Server 2016 on Windows Server 2016 – No. 2: Performance and cost

Imagine you’ve just bought a super powerful car with built-in advanced technology to make it perform at its highest.

Best Practices March 23, 2017 4 min read

Five reasons to run SQL Server 2016 on Windows Server 2016 — No. 1: Security

This is the first blog in a five-part series.

Announcements January 23, 2017 1 min read

SQL Server named DBMS of the Year by DB-Engines

SQL Server was recently named DBMS of the Year by DB-Engines.

Updates January 10, 2017 1 min read

Announcing Columnstore Indexes and Query Store support in Database Engine Tuning Advisor

The latest version of Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine Tuning Advisor (DTA) supports two new features: (a) Ability to recommend columnstore indexes in addition to rowstore indexes, and (b) Ability to automatically select a workload to tune from the Query Store.

Best Practices January 4, 2017 3 min read

Welcome 2017! Recap of top SQL Server posts of 2016

We start off the new year with a quick recap of our most popular posts on this blog channel from the year just concluded.

Updates November 28, 2016 2 min read

Microsoft releases the latest update to Analytics Platform System

Microsoft is pleased to announce that the appliance update, Analytics Platform System (APS) 2016, has been released to manufacturing and is now generally available.

Updates November 17, 2016 2 min read

SQL Server 2016 SP1 brings new innovation opportunities to software partners

This post was authored by Tiffany Wissner, Senior Director of Data Platform Marketing Yesterday at Connect(); we announced SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1 (SP1), which introduces a common programming surface across SQL Server editions.

Updates November 16, 2016 2 min read

SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1 generally available

This post was authored by Tiffany Wissner, Senior Director of Data Platform Marketing Microsoft is pleased to announce the availability of SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1 (SP1).

Best Practices October 19, 2016 1 min read

Free eBook: Using SQL Server 2016 for Data Science & Advanced Analytics

Reposted from the Cortana Intelligence & Machine Learning blog.

Best Practices October 17, 2016 7 min read

SQL Server as a Machine Learning Model Management System

This post was authored by Rimma Nehme, Technical Assistant, Data Group Machine Learning Model Management If you are a data scientist, business analyst or a machine learning engineer, you need model management – a system that manages and orchestrates the entire lifecycle of your learning model.

Best Practices October 13, 2016 4 min read

SQL Server 2016 Express Edition in Windows containers

We are excited to announce the public availability of SQL Server 2016 Express Edition in Windows Containers! The image is now available on Docker Hub and the build scripts are hosted on our SQL Server Samples GitHub repository.

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