John Breeden II is an award-winning reviewer with more than 20 years of experience covering technology. Follow him on Twitter @TheLabGuys. Most educational ­environments rely heavily on databases, ...

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Microsoft released to manufacturing the latest version of its SQL Server database, SQL Server 2014, on March 18. SQL Server 2014 will be available to customers as of April 1. The newest version of SQL ...

Everybody wants their databases to retrieve and store information faster, and with SQL Server 2014, which is released to manufacturing today, Microsoft is tweaking its columnar data store as well as ...

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Last year, Microsoft officials said the next version of its SQL Server database would include built-in in-memory online transaction processing (OLTP) technology. That was all they'd say at that point ...