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The Always Encrypted feature for Microsoft’s Azure SQL Database and SQL Server 2016 is now generally available, the company said. It keeps data encrypted at all times, showing it in plaintext only to ...

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JetBrains, producer of numerous development tools for a wide variety of coding projects, is set to release an advanced editor for SQL management. The company already has a number of plugins for its ...

One of the long-standing differentiators between SQL Server’s Enterprise Edition (EE) and Standard Edition (SE), besides price, were the large number of features available only in EE. This is also ...

Microsoft’s efforts to bring its formidable software portfolio into the hybrid cloud caught up to SQL Server this week with the preview of a new release that includes functionality for automatically ...

When it comes to cloud-based database management, there are really only two players: Amazon, the value leader, and Microsoft, the innovation leader. Amazon has carved out a niche as the value leader ...

Microsoft announced this week that a faster update release pace will be coming to its newly announced SQL Server 2017 product. Microsoft unveiled SQL Server 2017 this week at its Ignite event, ...

SQL 2016 has a number of major enhancements which will help whether or not you are implementing on-prem, in Azure or in a hybrid model. Last week Microsoft released the preview of SQL Server 2016 ...

The Common Language Runtime is at the heart of Microsoft’s .NET vision. It promises to co-opt the benefits of Java–it’s a run-time environment that features a just-in-time compiler and built-in ...