SQL Server 2016—The Licensing Info
SQL Server 2016 launched last week to great reviews and with a ton of great new features. I have been working with this version for well over a year now and extremely happy to see it hit RTM and be broadly adopted. So as DBAs it always sucks when you get excited about new features, […]
Did You Know?? R Services is in Standard Edition of SQL Server 2016
While my last post extolled the virtues of SQL Server Standard Edition, this week while doing some client testing with Microsoft, I learned about another key standard edition feature. The new SQL Server R services is supported in standard edition of SQL Server 2016. While you won’t get access to some of the cool functions […]
SQL Server 2016—Standard Edition Doesn’t Suck!
Yesterday Microsoft announced SQL Server 2016 was launching on June 1st. I can say this is most production ready version of SQL Server I have ever worked on. I have had a customer on production since last August. We have been very happy and stable, and performance has been fantastic, we are using columnstore, availability […]
Letting Go—SQL Server 2005 Deprecation
SQL Server 2005 is deprecated this week, specifically tomorrow. That means if you have a problem, or a new bug is discovered, Microsoft support will require you to upgrade in order for support to help you with your problem. This is particularly a big deal when a new security bug is found, and it is […]