Faster insights from any data
Get faster insights with a complete data platform that speeds up how you access and analyze all types of data. With Microsoft’s data management solutions and online transaction processing (OLTP), it’s easy to connect every user in your organization to the data they need to make better decisions, faster.
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OLTP performance
Data warehouse
BI and analytics
Hybrid cloud
OLTP and data management with breakthrough in-memory database performance
Achieve the reliability and availability you need, fast in-memory performance, and peace-of-mind with unparalleled security.
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Manage structured and unstructured data with a trusted infrastructure that can scale from terabytes to petabytes, with real-time insights.
Learn more about our solutions for data warehousing and big dataBring the power of data to every user in your organization
Get BI and advanced analytics capabilities built in, and easily enable insights for every user, on every device.
Learn more about our BI and analytics capabilitiesGain faster time-to-business results using cloud
Access trusted cloud resources for speed and scale, and reduce your hardware, maintenance and administration costs.
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OLTP performance
OLTP and data management with breakthrough in-memory database performance
Achieve the reliability and availability you need, fast in-memory performance, and peace-of-mind with unparalleled security.
Learn more about our OLTP and database management solutions -
Data warehouse
Data warehousing and big data solutions
Manage structured and unstructured data with a trusted infrastructure that can scale from terabytes to petabytes, with real-time insights.
Learn more about our solutions for data warehousing and big data -
BI and analytics
Bring the power of data to every user in your organization
Get BI and advanced analytics capabilities built in, and easily enable insights for every user, on every device.
Learn more about our BI and analytics capabilities -
Hybrid cloud
Gain faster time-to-business results using cloud
Access trusted cloud resources for speed and scale, and reduce your hardware, maintenance and administration costs.
Learn more about our cloud data solutions
5 REASONS TO CHOOSE SQL SERVER FOR DATA MANAGEMENT AND ANALYTICS
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Enterprise grade
Increase performance with greater security, scale, availability and mission-critical support.
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Most widely used
Enjoy the resources, applications and partner ecosystem of the most widely used data platform.
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Low cost of ownership
Get the platform that includes mission-critical OLTP capabilities with no costly add-ons.
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Easy on-ramp to cloud
Enable new hybrid cloud solutions to help reduce costs of data management and improve business continuity.
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Built-in BI and analytics
Create business insight for everyone, on every device and enable predictive intelligence.
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Gartner Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems
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Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems
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Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms
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DATA MANAGEMENT CUSTOMER STORIES
Dell improves transaction speeds by 9X with In-Memory OLTP
By migrating mission-critical databases to Microsoft SQL Server 2014 and taking advantage of In-Memory OLTP, Dell has sped the performance by up to nine times, which has doubled the throughput capabilities and will cut operational costs.
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SQL SERVER BLOG
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SQL Server 2016 is generally available today
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Bring business insights to more people with SQL Server 2016 mobile reports
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A tour through tool improvements in SQL Server 2016
03 May 2016 10:30 AM by SQL Server Team
See how these partners use core business systems on SQL Server across the enterprise.
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Read about Carnegie Mellon University cutting energy consumption by 30% with a hybrid cloud environment on SQL Server.
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Find out how the core banking solution running on SQL Server is able to process up to 2 million transactions per day.
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Learn how GE Healthcare utilizes SQL Server to ensure high availability and provides transformational medical technologies.
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