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Time is running out: Upgrade SQL Server 2005 now 

Less than one month remains before support ends for SQL Server 2005 on April 12, 2016. If you’re still using this version or other legacy versions of SQL Server, there’s never been a better time to upgrade to SQL Server 2014 and Microsoft Azure SQL Database to safeguard your business and reap all the benefits of a modern data platform.
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SQL Server 2016 documentation survey 

The SQL Server documentation team is working to improve the SQL Server documentation in an effort to enable you be more successful with and gain more value from SQL Server. Please let us know your thoughts on how we can improve the documentation by taking this brief survey by March 18. We appreciate and are listening to your feedback! Thank you.
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Mapping the Universe with SQL Server 

This blog post was co-authored by Joseph Sirosh, Corporate Vice President, and Rimma V. Nehme, Principal Software Engineer, at the Data Group at Microsoft.   Figure 1: Visible objects of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) DR7 dataset. Over the last 15 years a database helped revolutionize an entire field of science.
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Announcing SQL Server on Linux 

Today, we announced our plans to bring SQL Server to Linux. This will enable SQL Server to deliver a consistent data platform across Windows Server and Linux, as well as on-premises and cloud. We are bringing the core relational database capabilities to preview today, and are targeting availability in mid-2017.  Read Scott Guthrie’s blog post to learn more.
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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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Announcing SQL Server Stretch Database service preview 

Microsoft is pleased to announce a preview of the new SQL Server Stretch Database service. With this preview, SQL Server 2016 users can dynamically stretch their on-premises warm and cold data to an Azure service that is engineered from the ground up for compute capacity and virtually infinite storage. Unlike typical cold data management solutions, your data is always at hand and secure by design.
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Are you running SQL Server 2005 Express? (Are you sure?) 

Only a few weeks remain before extended support for SQL Server 2005 ends. Although we’ve been talking about this for months, there’s a chance the April 12 end of support date will sneak up on you — if you’re one of thousands who are running SQL Server 2005 Express.
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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.