Hekaton, Microsoft's coming in-memory database engine, will be built into the next version of SQL Server. Meanwhile, SQL Server 2012 SP1 is now generally available.

Last but not the least, Microsoft SQL Server comes in many editions, each of which has its own array of features and pricing plan. Different organizations have different database needs depending ...

Microsoft has taken some steps toward this already—for example, the JDBC driver, used to access SQL Server from Java applications, was recently open sourced—but there's much more work to do to ...