SQL Server 2016–Getting Started, Download, Installation and First Look
Hi Folks,
After long time I got chance to download and install SQL Server 2016 community preview.
This blog post is nothing but my first look at SQL Server 2016, As from SQL server journey, Here are few my old blog post where I was explaining first look on old SQL Server release.
This blog post covers following points about SQL Server 2016
- My Old SQL Server release blog post and links
- SQL Server 2016 Download links and information
- Descriptions and Pre installation information of SQL Server 2016
- How to get latest information on SQL Server 2016
- Official Product launch website
- How to get start without installing SQL Server 2016 with virtual labs
- MSDN Online SQL Server 2016
- Key innovation
- SQL Server 2016 previous release information
- Datasheet information
- Links to read
My Old SQL Server release blog post and links
I am really feeling to be integral part of change and accepting all of SQL Server evolution , Also you can see every release nothing but big change, New innovation and always enhancing SQL Server better and better.
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SQL Server 2016 Download links and information
Lets get Started with SQL Server 2016-
See the language option available to download –
Descriptions and Pre installation information of SQL Server 2016
Once you register and selected language, Download will appear, Approximate 2 GB File.
How to get latest information on SQL Server 2016
Join SQL Server blog for all latest information
Official product launch website –
SQL Server 2016 delivers breakthrough mission-critical capabilities with in-memory performance and operational analytics built-in. Comprehensive security features like new Always Encrypted technology help protect your data at rest and in motion, and a world-class high availability and disaster recovery solution adds new enhancements to AlwaysOn technology.
Organizations will gain deeper insights into all of their data with new capabilities that go beyond business intelligence to perform advanced analytics directly within their database and present rich visualizations for business insights on any device.
You can also gain the benefits of hyper-scale cloud with new hybrid scenarios enabled by new Stretch Database technology that lets you dynamically stretch your warm and cold transactional data to Microsoft Azure in a secured way so your data is always at hand for queries, no matter the size. In addition, SQL Server 2016 delivers a complete database platform for hybrid cloud, enabling you to easily build, deploy and manage solutions that span on-premises and cloud.
How to get start without installing SQL Server 2016 with virtual labs
If you do not want to install SQL Server on your machine ,But you want to gets hands on SQL Server 2016, Please try SQL Server 2016 Virtual Labs
7 different virtual lab available right now, Click here to go !
MSDN Online SQL Server 2016
Click here to visit MSDN Online Library for SQL Server 2016
SQL Server 2016 previous release information
Datasheet information
Download SQL Server 2016 Data sheet for more information here
Links to read
- https://redmondmag.com/articles/2015/06/03/features-to-sql-server-2016.aspx
- http://www.computerworld.com/article/2923214/big-data/sql-server-2016-to-include-r.html
- http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2015/06/27/sql-server-2016-new-feature-dynamic-data-masking/
- https://redmondmag.com/articles/2015/06/03/features-to-sql-server-2016.aspx
- http://www.alexvolok.com/2015/07/sql-server-2016-dynamic-data-masking/
- http://sqlperformance.com/2015/05/sql-server-2016/in-memory-oltp-enhancements
- http://www.sqlshack.com/new-features-in-sql-server-2016-temporal-data-tables/
Please leave comment if you have started using SQL server 2016.
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