In the cloud era, you may wonder why Microsoft is investing big into an "on-premises" product like SQL Server. It is a complex question I wanted to answer through the lens of some of the new ...

Its high degree of compatibility with cloud releases of SQL Server, which includes numerous editions of Azure SQL Database — especially Azure SQL Database MI — means that on-premise customers ...

SQL Server 2016 will integrate tightly with Microsoft Azure, allowing agencies to seamlessly shift database content between on-premises infrastructure and the public cloud. Agencies can embrace this ...

“SQL Server Express is a version of SQL Server you can use for dev/test and Web and mobile apps with lightweight relational database needs,” stated the company in a Feb. 12 blog post.

As Computer World notes, it lets users store some data locally while sending infrequently used data to Microsoft's Azure cloud platform. Just by upgrading to SQL Server 2016, Microsoft says users ...

Microsoft cloud to SQL Server: let's have an open (source) relationship Written by Andrew Brust, Contributor May 10, 2017 at 8:00 a.m. PT Microsoft loves to tell us it loves Linux.