One of the long-standing differentiators between SQL Server’s Enterprise Edition (EE) and Standard Edition (SE), besides price, were the large number of features available only in EE. This is also ...

Microsoft released BizTalk Server 2016 Feature Pack 1 this week. There was little preamble to the announcement. BizTalk Server 2016, an enterprise integration product for deployment on customers' ...

Microsoft packed SQL Server 2016 with new advanced features that are supposed to help it compete with a host of other database software. But some of the advanced capabilities in the relational ...

The second service pack for Microsoft's flagship RDBMS, SQL Server 2016, shipped this month. According to a blog post published this week, the SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 2 (SP2) includes cumulative ...

The Microsoft OLE DB Provider is an SQL tool that enables developers to write code that provides an application with ADO access to an SQL database. The OLE DB Provider is not installed by default when ...

Microsoft released BizTalk Server 2016 Feature Pack 1 this week. Microsoft conceives of feature packs for BizTalk Server as a way to "provide improvements, features, and closer integration with Azure, ...

Microsoft packed SQL Server 2016 with new advanced features that are supposed to help it compete with a host of other database software. But some of the advanced capabilities in the relational ...

With a host of improvements based on customer and SQL community feedback, the SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 2 (SP2) was released by Microsoft. Microsoft said the new release contains a roll-up of ...

BizTalk Server 2016 Feature Pack 1 is now available. Microsoft conceives of feature packs for BizTalk Server as a way to "provide improvements, features, and closer integration with Azure," according ...

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