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If you've worked in any data-centric role, you've probably experienced the effects of the proverbial "mandate from on high." Someone in the C-suite decides it's time to hop on the latest shift in the ...

Microsoft is inching closer to rolling out SQL Server 2016, with the near-final release candidate due out any day now.

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