SQL Server 2016 is a comprehensive high performance high scale data platform for your most demanding applications and insights on your data on any device.
SQL Server 2016 will be generally available on June 1, 2016.
In March, we announced that the SQL Server 2016 Developer edition will be a free download to enable broad access to and development on the full capabilities of the latest SQL Server release. The SQL Server 2016 editions include Enterprise, Standard, Express, and Developer.
This result, in addition to recent benchmarks by software and hardware partners, as well as key applications across variety of workloads, proves that SQL Server 2016 is the fastest in-memory database on the planet for your applications. Today, Lenovo published a new #1 TPC-H 30 TB world record 3 using SQL Server 2016 and Windows Server 2016 on Lenovo System x3950 X6. New SQL Server 2016 performance benchmarks.These capabilities are built-in to SQL Server for industry-leading low cost of ownership. This will allow you to build mission-critical, and business critical intelligent applications with the most secure database 1, the highest performance data warehouse 2, end-to-end mobile BI on any device, in-database advanced analytics, in-memory capabilities optimized for all workloads, and a consistent experience from on-premises to cloud. SQL Server 2016 will be generally available on June 1, 2016.Building on this momentum, today we are excited to announce the following: Recently, we had the opportunity to showcase the exciting capabilities and what customers are doing with SQL Server 2016 at our Data Driven event. With this new release, Microsoft is delivering an end-to-end data management and business analytics solution with mission critical intelligence for your most demanding applications as well as insights on your data on any device. SQL Server 2016 is the foundation of Microsoft’s data strategy, encompassing innovations that transform data into intelligent action. This post was authored by Tiffany Wissner, Senior Director of Data Platform Marketing.