Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Download SQL Server 2016 Release Candidate 3 and evaluate


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You can download the 120 day edition from here after registering.

Three types of download (only 64-bit):

ISO
CAB
Azure

Hardware and software requirements (abbreviated):

  • .NET Framework 4.6, Installation setup installs.NET Framework
  • Network Software: Shared memory, Named Pipes, TCP/IP and VIA
  • Hard disk space: Minimum of 6GB
  • Drive/Monitor/Internet required.
  • Memory: 1GB
  • Processor: x64 bit 1.4GHZ
  • Processor type: x64 Processor: AMD Opteron, AMD Athlon, Intel Xeon with Intel EM64T Support and Intel Premium with EM64T support
  • No support for WOW 64

Here are the benefits of SQL Server 2016:
Enhanced in-memory performance provide up to 30x faster transactions, more than 100x faster queries than disk based relational databases and real-time operational analytics
◾New Always Encrypted technology helps protect your data at rest and in motion, on-premises and in the cloud, with master keys sitting with the application, without application changes
◾Built-in advanced analytics– provide the scalability and performance benefits of building and running your advanced analytics algorithms directly in the core SQL Server transactional database
◾Business insights through rich visualizations on mobile devices with native apps for Windows, iOS and Android
◾Simplify management of relational and non-relational data with ability to query both through standard T-SQL using PolyBase technology
◾Stretch Database technology keeps more of your customer’s historical data at your fingertips by transparently stretching your warm and cold OLTP data to Microsoft Azure in a secure manner  without application changes
◾Faster hybrid backups, high availability and disaster recovery scenarios to backup and restore your on-premises databases to Microsoft Azure and place your SQL Server AlwaysOn secondaries in Azure

There are several different types of SQL Server 2014 available and detials are here:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143506(v=sql.130).aspx#hwswr

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