As 2016 comes to a close, Microsoft is keeping SQL Server users busy with fresh announcements and new releases. SQL Server on Linux, now in public preview, brings together Microsoft and Linux in a way that would have been unimaginable until recently. SearchSQLServer talked with SQL Server expert Joey D’Antoni, principal consultant at Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting, about what these big announcements say about Microsoft and what to expect from SQL Server going forward.
Microsoft plans to add Enterprise Edition features to Standard Edition in SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1. What do you think motivated this decision?
Joey D’Antoni: Mainly … the software vendors — I think they wanted to drive adoption on some of the features that make SQL Server different from Postgres or MySQL, and where you’re not just using cable. So, I think by encouraging software vendors to take advantage of these features, they better hook in with them.
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