This license is an authentic Microsoft license, and can be used in production environments. The license is unused, and comes on a CoA with holographic product label.

The Retail Core License comes with unlimited User CALs and can be installed on one Physical or VM Server. The license can be moved to a new installation if needed later on.

Language: US-English.

SQL Server 2016 is the biggest leap forward in Microsoft data platform history with features that increase performance, simplify management, and transform your data into actionable insights—all on a database that has the least vulnerabilities of any major platform.

·         Build intelligent, mission-critical applications

·         Break free from Oracle

·         Always Encrypted

·         Real-time operational analytics

·         In-database analytics

·         PolyBase

·         And much much more. Check on the Internet, it has hours of reading about SQL Server 2016.

SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 2 ("SP2") contains a roll-up of released hotfixes as well as multiple improvements centered around performance, scalability, and supportability based on feedback from customers and the SQL community. These improvements enable SQL Server 2016 to perform faster and with expanded supportability and diagnostics. It also showcases the SQL Server product team’s commitment to providing continued value into in-market releases.

Performance and scale improvements for SQL Server, such as improved database backup performance on large memory machines and added backup compression support, which helps performance of almost all databases.

Supportability and diagnostics enhancements, such as improved troubleshooting and additional information about statistics used during query plan optimization.

New improvements based on Connect feedback items filed by the SQL Server Community.

Some improvements originally introduced in SQL Server 2014 SP2 and SQL Server 2012 SP4.

 

SQL Server Standard provides core data management and business intelligence capabilities for non-critical workloads with minimal IT resources.

·         Disk-based OLTP

·         24 cores max and 128 GB max memory

·         2-node single database failover (non-readable secondary)

·         Query Store

·         Temporal

·         Row-level security

·         Dynamic data masking

·         Basic auditing

·         Separation of duties

·         Policy-based management

·         PolyBase (compute node only)

·         Support for JSON

·         Basic tabular (16GB memory per instance)

·         Web portal experience

·         Modernized reports

·         Pin reports to Power BI

·         Enhanced multidimensional models

·         Single-threaded for RRE

·         Connectivity to R Open

·         Stretch Database

·         Backup to Azure