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The Linux version includes all the standard SQL Server management features found in the Windows version. The service is currently available in preview.

Microsoft announced that the backup retention of Azure SQL Database has been significantly increased. The service will also make automatic weekly backups of all databases.

Temporal Tables in Azure AQL Database helps customers to manage their data in more detail. Users can track data history throughout their databases.

Azure SQL Data Warehouse users can now choose between over 3800 collations when creating a database, and can now change the default collation type with ease.

Azure's new SQL data warehouse blade automatically scans for metrics such as Name Status, Pricing tier and Location to provide an easier management experience.

Updates for SQL Server and Dashboard Management packs bring a number of fixes and improvements, including support for host names longer than fifteen symbols.

Microsoft has announced an update for SQL Server Data Tools which pushes the version up to 16.4. It some prominent issues and adds support for Schema Compare in SqlPackage.exe.

Microsoft has rolled out its deep analytics and huge data management service Azure SQL Data Warehouse to four new regions, expanding its general availability to 18 regions in total.

The new preview functionality offers significant performance increases due to the ability to run the web and SQL server side-by-side.

P15 offers 4000DTUs, and 1TB of storage, allowing for fast and simultaneous real-time analytics and transaction processing.

The latest release of ODBC Driver sees the service come to build 13.1. Microsoft has included a number of changes, including Azure Active Directory support.

The SQL server has beaten the TPC-H 10 TB benchmark, making it the fastest in-memory database on the market. It was achieved on Lenovo System x3850 X6.

The Data Warehouse service managed by Microsoft can be provisioned in minutes, process massive volumes of data and scale up dynamically when needed.

Added protection for sensitive is now offered by Always Encrypted in SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT), with the feature arriving to users this month.

The company is tightening its open source ties with further support for Red Hat Linux distribution, mirroring a similar partnership the companies struck last year.

A video uploaded to Channel 9 shows two Microsoft engineers run a simply demo of the much-anticipated SQL Server on Linux platform.

SQL Server 2016 has been made generally available for everyone after finally leaving the preview and release candidate phase, Microsoft announced today.

The company officially announced that SQL Server 2016 on wide release starting June 1, 2016, with all versions of the product available from day one.

The company has re-confirmed a long time plan to shutter support for SQL Server 2005, leaving users without security fixes from tomorrow (April 12).

There has been a lot of movement with SQL Server 2016 recently, not least Microsoft’s announcement that the database will be heading to the open source Linux platform.