Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Standard Edition

Description

Enabling effective database management with minimal IT resources. SQL Server 2016 Standard edition delivers greater scalability, security, and performance and lays the foundation for building intelligent applications and deeper insights on data.

Features

Increase performance and scalability
Get enhanced performance, improved availability, and greater scalability with up to 24 cores.

Enhance security
Help secure data by limiting access with row level security, dynamic data masking, and basic auditing to easily log and track changes.

Gain deeper insights across your data
Create trusted data models that can be easily understood and accessed by business users through their preferred visualization and analytics tools, deliver insights with modern reports, and utilize open-source R integration for advanced analytics.

Simplify big data
Take advantage of PolyBase technology to query structured and unstructured data with the simplicity of T-SQL. Gain scalability and performance for your big data workloads by upgrading to Enterprise edition, which offers scale out query processing. Requires single Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Enterprise edition as head node.

Build intelligent applications on a solid foundation
Use single threaded open source R for building advanced analytics into your applications. Gain scalability and performance by upgrading to Enterprise edition, which offers massively parallel processing scale, multi-threaded open-source R along with in-memory performance.

Cloud-enable your database
Stretch your database to the cloud with Stretch Database, in addition to easy backup and migration options.

System Requirements:

Min Operating System	Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials Windows Server 2012 R2 Foundation Windows Server 2012 Datacenter Windows Server 2012 Standard Windows Server 2012 Essentials Windows Server 2012 Foundation Windows 10 Home Windows 10 Professional Windows 10 Enterprise Windows 8.1 Windows 8.1 Pro Windows 8.1 Enterprise Windows 8 Windows 8 Pro Windows 8 Enterprise
Platform	Windows
Min Hard Drive Space	Minimum of 6 GB of available hard-disk space.
Min Operating System	Microsoft Windows
Min RAM Size	1 GB
Processor Speed	Minimum: x64 Processor: 1.4 GHz Recommended: 2.0 GHz or faster
Processor Type	x64 Processor: AMD Opteron, AMD Athlon 64, Intel Xeon with Intel EM64T support, Intel Pentium IV with EM64T support