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The new service pack is a "cumulative update," which means that it upgrades "all editions and service levels of SQL Server 2014 to SQL Server 2014 SP3," Microsoft's support article explained. SP3 ...
SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 3 (SP3) was announced on Wednesday, about two years after the release of SP2.
Microsoft today announced the availability of SQL Server 2014 Community Technology Preview 2.
Many of the new features coming in SQL Server 2014, now available in Community Technology Preview, are encapsulated within broader and rather intuitive categories. The major categories for new ...
SQL Server 2014 hit its 'release-to-manufacturing' milestone today, with Microsoft projecting an April 1 commercial release.
Microsoft's SQL Server evolution. Microsoft is claiming a five-times data compression improvement in its in-memory column-store index technology in SQL Server 2014. Buffer extension support was added ...
Microsoft has RTM'd SQL Server 2014, which includes a new in-memory OLTP engine built jointly by Microsoft Research and the SQL Server team.
After nearly nine months in community preview, Microsoft today released SQL Server 2014 to manufacturing with generally available planned for April 1. The new version of Microsoft’s relational ...
In SQL Server 2014 Business Intelligence Edition, a SQL Server instance can use up to 128 gigabytes of memory. Additionally, this edition includes the Advanced corporate BI (Tabular BI semantic model, ...
The next version of Microsoft’s relational database management system (RDMS) promises to bring immense performance gains to online transactional processing systems. SQL Server 2014 will come ...
The SQL Server sprawl encompasses physical deployment options as well. SQL Server 2014 offers rich integration with Windows Azure (Microsoft's cloud platform), ranging from hybrid scenarios where ...
SQL Server 2014 will come with a new in-memory OLTP engine, one built with the company’s Heckaton set of technologies, first developed by Microsoft Research.