Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Key - GLOBAL

Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Standard Edition: Powering Your Data Management

Overview

Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Standard Edition equips departments with indispensable data management and Business Intelligence functionalities. Engineered for online transaction processing (OLTP), it boasts cutting-edge scalability and performance. Fast and efficient application deployment is geared towards small organizations, allowing for effective database management with minimal IT resources. The Standard edition supports popular development tools for managing databases locally and in the cloud. Deliver insights online or offline, enabling organizations to identify new business growth opportunities by leveraging data in the safest and most manageable way.

Licensing Requirements

User or device access licenses are required for the software.

Features

• Performance, Scalability, and Availability: Create intelligent and critical OLTP applications with breakthrough scalability, performance, and availability.

• Data Security: Protect data both in transit and at rest. SQL Server is the least vulnerable database, running based on NIST security vulnerabilities for six years.

• Comprehensive Mobile BI: Convert data into actionable insights and deliver analytics across all devices – whether online or offline – at a fraction of the cost compared to other self-service solutions.

• Advanced In-Database Analytics: Analyze data directly in the SQL Server database – without moving data – using R, a popular statistics language.

• Built for Hybrid Cloud: Attain a consistent platform and tools to facilitate workload migration between data centres, private cloud, or the Microsoft Azure platform.

• Enhanced Security: SQL Server 2016 has three fundamental enhancements: Always Encrypted, Row-Level Security, and Dynamic Data Masking. Utilizing the groundbreaking client-side encryption technique of "Always Encrypted," SQL Server remains unaware of the unencrypted data version.

• Expanded Data Access: As data storage expenses decline and the diversity of data formats employed by applications evolves, the demand for managing access to historical data relationships and integrating relational data with partially structured and unstructured data rises. SQL Server 2016 offers numerous novel features to accommodate this dynamic landscape, ensuring access to a broader array of data.

  • Temporal Data: JSON

  • PolyBase