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 ...

Microsoft has released some details on SQL Server 2012 licensing prior to the product's release April 1, with pricing for some Enterprise editions expected to be higher. Final pricing calculations ...

Microsoft rolled out a description of its SQL Server 2012 licensing model on Thursday. Microsoft's up-and-coming relational database management system (formerly code-named "Denali") promises ...

The latest development of multi-core processors has opened the door to affordable performance that was only achievable before from multi-CPU machines. I gave an example recently with the 8-way ...