Product: SQL Server 2016

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Decisions @ the speed of thought with SQL Server 2016 

In his 1999 book, “Business @ the Speed of Thought,” Bill Gates predicted the future “will be about velocity. About how quickly business itself will be transacted. About how information access will alter the lifestyle of consumers and their expectations of business…. When the increase in velocity is great enough, the very nature of business changes.
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SQL Server 2016 Release Candidate 1 now available 

We are excited to announce that our second SQL Server 2016 release candidate, SQL Server 2016 Release Candidate (RC) 1, is now available for download. This is an important milestone in the release of SQL Server 2016, as the product is nearly feature complete, and means that a very rich set of capabilities is now available.
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Enable business insights for everyone with SQL Server 2016: Part 2 

This blog post was authored by Kasper de Jonge, Senior Program Manager, SQL Server Analysis Services.   This is the second installment of a two-part series. If you missed it, please have a look at part one and learn how SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) provides fast access to data to allow analysis at the speed of thought.
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First release candidate of SQL Server 2016 now available 

We are excited to announce that our first SQL Server 2016 release candidate, SQL Server 2016 Release Candidate (RC) 0, is now available for download. This is an important milestone in the release of SQL Server 2016, as this marks feature completion for most dimensions of the product.
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Introducing: SQL Server 2016 Community Technology Preview 3.3 

The SQL Server 2016 Community Technology Preview (CTP) 3.3 is now available for download! In SQL Server 2016 CTP 3.3, part of our new rapid preview model, we made enhancements to several features which you can try in your development and test environments. In SQL Server 2016 CTP 3.
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Technical Overview: SQL Server 2016 Community Technology Preview 3.3 

The SQL Server engineering team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of SQL Server 2016 public preview release CTP 3.3. This release advances the “Cloud First” tenet; the build has already been deployed to SQL Azure Database worldwide. To learn more about the release, visit the SQL Server 2016 preview page.
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Limiting access to data using Row-Level Security 

To satisfy compliance standards, internal regulations or basic security principles, applications often need to limit a user’s access to only certain rows of data in a database. For example: An oil and gas exploration application might restrict an analyst’s access to well production data based on the analyst’s region and role.