{"id":1333,"date":"2014-03-18T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/dataplatforminsider\/2014\/03\/18\/sql-server-2014-releases-april-1\/"},"modified":"2024-01-22T22:52:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T06:52:12","slug":"sql-server-2014-releases-april-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sql-server\/blog\/2014\/03\/18\/sql-server-2014-releases-april-1\/","title":{"rendered":"SQL Server 2014 releases April 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

SQL Server 2014, Microsoft\u2019s cloud first data platform, released to manufacturing today<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Today, Quentin Clark, corporate vice president of the Data Platform Group, announced<\/a> that SQL Server 2014, the foundation of Microsoft\u2019s cloud-first data platform, is released to manufacturing and will be generally available on April 1. Quentin\u2019s blog discussed the tremendous momentum with the SQL Server business as well as SQL Server 2014\u2019s new in-memory OLTP technology and hybrid cloud capabilities. Here we provide additional details on those capabilities and highlight ways customers are getting tremendous value with SQL Server 2014.<\/p>\n


Delivering breakthrough performance with In-Memory OLTP<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

The worldwide data explosion is creating new challenge and new opportunities for enterprises seeking to transform their business to better respond to ever changing market conditions. Businesses need better performance from their transactional applications to respond to customer demand in real time, not at the end of the day when the batch process completes.\u00a0 We have several great examples of customers using the new, in-memory OLTP engine in SQL Server 2014 to deliver breakthrough performance to their mission critical applications, including:<\/p>\n