You can leverage SQL Server 2016 to build, deploy and manage solutions that can be hosted either on premise or on the cloud. Note that as of this writing, SQL Server 2016 is still in its CTP.

Databases hosted in a local SQL Server 2016 instance can be extended into Azure — but transparently, without the need for an application to be aware of it, and with the database admin ...

Learn how to install and configure SQL Server Management Studio, download a SQL Server, and connect them on a Windows 11/10/Server computer..

PolyBase will be released in the first half of 2013, as part of the next version of SQL Server PDW and will integrate data in Hadoop's Distributed File System (HDFS) with the relational database ...

On that front, Microsoft previewed Azure SQL Database Managed Instance, which is an option for moving local SQL Server workloads to the Azure SQL Database service, which is hosted and managed by ...

VSM Cover Story Update Local Data Caches with Sync Services The Microsoft Synchronization Services 1.0 API for SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition and the new Sync Designer in the Orcas March 2007 CTP ...

With PolyBase, SQL Server offers that capability, exposing data in systems as though they were simply local SQL Server tables and letting you use the same set of T-SQL functionality you already know.