Microsoft provided "performance, scalability and diagnostics improvements" in this week's release of SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 3 (SP3). The company's announcement of the release comes about two ...

SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 3 (SP3) was announced on Wednesday, about two years after the release of SP2. SP3 is a cumulative update, which means that it'll upgrade "all editions and service levels ...

Microsoft on Wednesday announced the release of SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 3 (SP3). SP3 brings new capabilities to Microsoft's relational database management system. It adds "performance, ...

Microsoft's partners are now selling Extended Security Updates (ESU) for SQL Server 2014 as of this month, per this announcement. These ESUs are for organizations having trouble upgrading their SQL ...

If you haven't installed SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 1, keep it that way. If you have installed the service pack, you may be regretting it. Microsoft pulled it last week after install errors surfaced ...

Just in case you missed the latest news from Microsoft, SQL Server 2014 has finally gone RTM (Released to Manufacturing). I’ve been telling you about the new features planned for this release since ...

Microsoft today announced SQL Server 2014, designed with "cloud-first principles" and featuring built-in, in-memory OLTP and a focus on real-time, Big Data-style analytics. No specific realease date ...

Microsoft yesterday unveiled an updated SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) to ease moving existing Oracle databases to SQL Server 2014. It's the latest back-and-forth effort between the two ...

As reported earlier today by my ZDNet colleague Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft SQL Server 2014 has been released to manufacturing, and will be generally available on April 1st. Quentin Clark, Corporate Vice ...

Last year, Microsoft officials said the next version of its SQL Server database would include built-in in-memory online transaction processing (OLTP) technology. That was all they'd say at that point ...