Microsoft's relational database engine has had the same licensing model since 2012. The new version released this week brings significant changes that brings SQL Server closer to Azure SQL's licensing ...

This month's Windows Server vNext includes a Datacenter: Azure Edition, with the typical ISO and bits available in 18 languages. There are no known issues reported with this final build of the year.

Data developers are still learning about all the new goodies that arrived with SQL Server 2022, which is chock full of new features and enhancements such as ledger for blockchain security. Microsoft ...