Microsoft’s Latest SQL Server 2016 to Hit Market in June

For all the technical geeks, here is a news from Microsoft. Next month on June 1, 2016, Microsoft will release the latest version SQL Server 2016.

The latest version of Microsoft SQL Server 2016 is packed with significant features which are not available in its earlier versions. Microsoft is to release the business analytics and end-to-end data management solution meeting critical intelligence that will gain insights of data on any device applicable for the demanding applications.

SQL Server 2016 edition will be available in Enterprise, Standard Express, and Developer database management suite. The Developer edition is available for free to download. It is packed with features similar to Enterprise, however, it is designed for development and testing and therefore cannot experience production workloads. Microsoft is offering this edition with a free lifetime license and also have a Microsoft Software Assurance contract and offer free support to the Oracle users who switch to it before the end of the next month.

Comprehensive Features of SQL Server 2016

SQL Server 2016 is ideal for:

• Enterprise Scale Data Warehousing encapsulating in-memory columnstore which improves the query performance by 100x than disk based solutions. This offers accessibility to optimized MPP scale out software which can be combined with the scale out appliance architecture with Analytics Platform System (APS).
• Mission Critical Intelligent Applications delivered operational intelligence in real time by combining in-memory technology and built-in advanced analytics without affecting data and user performance.
• Intensive Business Intelligence Solutions are built up for mobile phones to deliver end-to-end mobile BI solution which can deliver insight on any mobile device. Additionally, users can user the modern web portal to manage the traditional reports, KPIs, and mobile reports.
• Always Encrypted Technology availability to ensure maximum security, which renders data protection to rest or active data without hampering the performance of the database.
• New big data solutions allow to query both the structured and unstructured data easily with T-SQL by combining relational and non-relational data using PolyBase technology built-in.
• A new Stretch Database Technology is introduced as Hybrid cloud solutions which lower the storage cost, streamline IT operations and increase high availability. This gives easy accessibility to the user of their historical data by security stretching the OLTP data to Microsoft Azure.

Microsoft SQL Server for Linux will be made available by 2017. The new edition of SQL Server 2016 is loaded with several extensive features by Microsoft. Upgrading or migration to new platform possesses complexity and demands effort. The post-migration environment will be fully optimized with the intuitive features. TatvaSoft, being a CMMi ML 3 and Microsoft Gold Certified Software Development Company possess the architectural knowledge and proven expertise for data migrations for mid to large size enterprise.