Meg is an editor for the CDW family of technology magazine websites. Schools and districts awaiting the release of Microsoft SQL Server 2016 can start planning their upgrades: Microsoft announced ...

Microsoft’s SQL Server Migration Assistant lets you move your data and schema to different SQL Servers. Here’s what you need to know about the tool. The Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant is a ...

Due to my background working with other major database platforms such as Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL, I’ve long been an advocate for the SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA). This powerful and easy ...

Microsoft calls SQL Server 2016 the “biggest leap forward” in the 27-year evolution of the SQL Server database. As we’ll see, despite the excess of hype, the SQL Server 2016 database offers ...

A few days ago, Microsoft shocked us when it announced that it would soon bring its SQL Server database to Linux. It’ll take until 2017 before SQL Server will be available on Linux, though. Until then ...

The next version of the Microsoft flagship database promises to add dynamic extensions to Azure and real time links between structured and unstructured data. The next release of Microsoft SQL Server ...

SQL Server 2016, sporting a full-fledged free edition for developer use, will have a June 1 release. But there's still no word about the promised Linux version SQL Server 2016, Microsoft’s newest ...

Microsoft releases SSMA v10.5 to enhance SQL Server and Azure SQL migrations. AI-assisted code conversion improves Oracle and SAP ASE compatibility and reliability. Updated migration tooling supports ...

Microsoft capped off a week of high-profile announcements related to SQL Server with an aggressive migration offer aimed at Oracle database customers. Here's the bottom line, from Microsoft's ...

Tap your data’s potential, Microsoft urges regional businesses, as it releases first SQL Server to be ‘born in the cloud’ 28th April 2016, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates – Microsoft Gulf invited UAE ...

There’s a very handy new tool from Microsoft called the Database Experimentation Assistant (DEA). The DEA makes it very easy to conduct A/B testing for SQL Server upgrades, providing quantitative ...