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SQL Server 2016 is vastly different from its predecessor SQL Server 2014, with a set of  cloud-first capabilities coming to on-premise and designed to enable future-ready enterprises. "It is not just another database that we are launching. The birth of this product took place in the cloud, so whatever features we have added in SQL Server 2016, have already been tested and used by the customers in the last one and a half years on Azure," says Srikanth Karnakota, Director – Server and Cloud Business, Microsoft India. SQL data warehouse capabilities and others which have been brought in to SQL Server 2016 on-premise is something Azure has already been working in. Thus, it's cloud first capabilities are coming back to on-premise. The platform different and more precise than the one launched in 2014. When it comes to security, with SQL Server 2016, data is always encrypted, whether data is in motion. For example, when doing a transaction with a credit card, once a cust...

Q. I'm a database guy, what features of Windows Server 2016 do I care about? A. Windows Server 2016 brings a huge number of new features, many of which I cover in my new Top Ten video at https://youtu.be/rdtnsMSnke0 however as a database administrator there are certain technologies that you will care about the most and I wanted to summarize these. AD independent clusters - While Windows Server 2012 R2 enabled clusters to be AD-detached which meant objects for the cluster were not created in AD and instead DNS was used the actual nodes still had to be part of the same domain. In Windows Server 2016 it is possible to create clusters with nodes in different domains and even have a mix of member servers and workgroup joined servers. Behind the scenes clusters now use a self-generated certificate for intra-cluster node authentication. Azure cloud witness - Windows Server 2016 adds a 3rd witness option on top of the existing disk and file share witness options. The new cloud witn...

U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth is the second federal judge in two months to rule in favor of conservative group Judicial Watch, which is pursuing legal discovery for information on Hillary Clinton's email server. Judicial Watch's pursuit of discovery comes with questions regarding why Clinton's email server was integrated into the State Department recordkeeping system, and why it was left out of a search requested under the Freedom of Information Act targeting information about the deadly attack on U.S. facilities in Benghazi in September 2012. The government argues that this does not show a lack of good faith, but that is what remains to be seen. — Royce Lamberth , U.S. District Court Judge Lamberth gave the Judicial Watch ten days after the ruling to come forward with follow-up or further discovery requests. This is the second time in two months that a judge has ruled in favor of Judicial Watch. Last month, U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sulliva...

C-SPAN Details about Hillary Clinton's exclusive reliance on a privately run email server during her tenure at the State Department have dribbled out in tiny drips over the last year or so, but now you can find most of the crucial information in a single story, courtesy of a massive investigative piece in The Washington Post .   The story provides a few new details but mostly serves as an extended roundup. Taken all together it's fairly damning: Whether or not she actually broke the law, the story suggests that her decision to circumvent the State Department's official email system entirely (she conducted all of her email correspondence through her private address via an unsecured Blackberry) while serving as Secretary of State was, at minimum, legally dubious. And even if Clinton didn't break the law, the decisions that she and her senior staff made reveal serious errors in judgment, as well a general sense of disdain on her part for transparency and accountability....

    LISBON, PORTUGAL, March 29, 2016 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Raspberry have been one of the greatest revolutions of the modern computing. It sold over 5 million units since 2015. Most of the people use it as a media center, videogames emulator console, music player, advertising outdoors... And now Copahost thought: why not using it as a dedicated server? First of all, the setup We used one stock Raspberry Pi 3 B (49EUR), with 1GB of RAM and a 1.2GHz 64-bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 CPU. The storage is one 32GB Adata Class 10 MicroSD card (9EUR). This Cortex-A53 is 10 times faster than the original Raspberry 1 CPU. That's a huge improvement. We installed the operating system Raspbian Jessie on it, and then we brought the Raspberry "junior" dedicated server into the datacenter and powered it on. By default, Raspbian will partition the SD card only using a small partition. We must enter raspi-config, in order to expand the fil esystem to use all the avaialble space in the SD...

By Spencer S. Hsu, A second federal judge in Washington ruled Tuesday that a conservative legal watchdog group may question the State Department and potentially several top aides to Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton about her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state. In a three-page order, U.S. District Senior Judge Royce C. Lamberth granted a request from Judicial Watch, which has sought public records of talking points used by Susan E. Rice, then the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, in television appearances after the deadly Sept. 11, 2012, attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya. Appearing five days later on Sunday-morning talk shows, Rice, now President Obama's national security adviser, said the assaults appeared to have stemmed from a spontaneous protest over an anti-Islam video. U.S. investigators later concluded that the attacks were carried out by terrorist groups. "Where there is evidence of government wrong-d...

Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. (Photo: Lynne Sladky, AP) Letters to the editor: Hillary Clinton's private email setup not only undermined the open-records act, but also compromised classified national security information — a fact that she and her supporters want to sweep under the rug ("Clinton's penchant for secrecy: Our view") This is perhaps best evidenced by opposing view writer David Brock's statement: "There was no security breach of Secretary Clinton's email or server." To assume that foreign intelligence would not collect and analyze unprotected classified State Department communications is wishful thinking, if not outright naive and absurd. Clinton's mishandling of classified information put our nation at risk. As USA TODAY's editorial suggested, the extent to which classified information rules or laws were violated "very quickly ... gets pretty arcane." This is no excuse to disregard or downplay...

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - On Wednesday at the O'Charley's restaurant in Panama City a server picked up a shift and a homegrown NFL player picked up the tab. It wasn't just his generosity that left his server speechless, though. "Hi my name's Tailor I'll be taking care of you today." That's how Tailor Thorne greets every one of the guests she serves. Little did she know that this time her guest would be taking care of her. "It's crazy to think that it actually happened to me," Tailor said. Thorne came to find out she was serving Detroit Lions defensive tackle and Panama City Native Khyri Thornton and a group of his friends and family. "I just cut up with them, just had a good time. I didn't know who he was. I don't watch football," Tailor admitted. When she cashed him out she discovered another surprise, this one in ink at the bottom of her receipt. "It just blew me away," Tailor said. ...

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks with Los Angles mayor Eric Garcetti at her side (L) during a community forum on counter terrorism and homeland security in Los Angeles, California March 24, 2016. Reuters/David McNew Soon after Hillary Clinton's arrival at the State Department in 2009, officials in the information technology office were baffled when told that a young technician would join them as a political appointee, newly disclosed emails show. The technician, Bryan Pagliano, was running the off-grid email server that Clinton had him set up in her New York home for her work as secretary of state. But even as years passed, Pagliano's supervisors never learned of his most ...

Shadow electronic government In all the noise regarding The Thing, I missed this Reuters report from Thursday night, Role of tech who set up Clinton's server unknown to bosses at State: Soon after Hillary Clinton's arrival at the State Department in 2009, officials in the information technology office were baffled when told that a young technician would join them as a political appointee, newly disclosed emails show. The technician, Bryan Pagliano, was running the off-grid email server that Clinton had him set up in her New York home for her work as secretary of state. But even as years passed, Pagliano's supervisors never learned of his most sensitive task, according to the department and one of his former colleagues. Pagliano's immediate supervisors did not know the private server even existed until it was revealed in news reports last year, the colleague said, requesting anonymity because of a department ban on unauthorized interviews…. Before joini...

The FBI submitted a classified declaration to a federal court judge late Friday explaining details about the bureau's "pending investigation" into the use of a private email server by Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton. The declaration addresses why the FBI can't publicly release any records about its probe in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed by VICE News. In a separate public declaration, David Hardy, the chief of the FBI's FOIA office, said there are a number of documents exchanged between the FBI and the State Department relating to the FBI's ongoing investigation of Clinton's use of a private email server, which stored all of the official government emails Clinton sent and received during her tenure as Secretary of State. But the FBI, which consulted with attorneys within its Office of General Counsel "who are providing legal support to the pending investigation," cannot divulge any of them with...

Want a beefed-up gaming or video-editing PC with dual Intel Xeon processors for under $200? The parts are out there, but finding and putting them together could prove difficult. This article covers what parts to look out for, and where to find disused server hardware that will make for an excellent gaming platform or workstation. Unfortunately, there are some caveats. First, these are older server processors, which means they need older motherboards and special RAM. While cheap, they've likely suffered years of heavy use, leading to wear and tear. Their long-term reliability might not be worthwhile. Second, if you want performance comparable to today's desktop systems, you'll need to use a dual-CPU motherboard (which isn't the same as a dual-core CPU). Linus, from Linus's TechTips, created a video on the subject: [embedded content] While Linus uses a grittier approach (he doesn't even bother with a case), I have some additional tips on building your own...

Earlier this week Apple introduced a new 4-inch  iPhone SE , a smaller iPad Pro , and all new Apple Watch bands at its 'Let us loop you in' March event . Just as we expected, news about any update in the MacBook line wasn't announced. But thanks to a tipster, we're now discovering references to an 'early 2016' 12-inch MacBook with Retina display, which is presumably a follow up to the first generation hardware released last April. Though the news around the 12-inch MacBook update has been quiet, Digitimes recently reported that Apple is preparing a new 13- and 15-inch MacBook for July . Today's discovery gives us further expectations that a 12-inch MacBook update may be seen in the near future. Evidence of the 2016 12-inch MacBook is seen within Apple's own System Image Utility on the Mac, which is where the reference was discovered, and the  OS X Server application available in the Mac App Store. Using the System Image Utility tool, a user c...

Andrew Cunnigham Apple's last two product events have spent time on the Apple Watch, the Apple TV, the iPad, and the iPhone, but the Mac has been conspicuously absent. Yet there's still work going on behind the scenes, as a tipster pointed out to 9to5Mac. A reference to a refreshed version of the 12-inch MacBook made it into the OS X Server 5.1 update that was released alongside all the other Apple software updates on Monday. The NetBoot feature in OS X Server lets you offer network-based OS X images to Macs, and administrators can set up filters to let them serve specific images to specific Mac models—the entry for an Early 2016 version of the 12-inch MacBook is present in this filter list, as seen above. Unfortunately, we can't guess much else about the MacBook other than the fact that it exists and probably uses upgraded Skylake Core M chips from Intel. If there have been any external changes (more or different ports, for instance), we won't know about them until t...

This blog post was authored by Kasper de Jonge, Senior Program Manager, SQL Server Analysis Services. This is the second installment of a two-part series. If you missed it, please have a look at part one and learn how SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) provides fast access to data to allow analysis at the speed of thought. Read on to learn about the specific improvements made to SSAS for SQL Server 2016. SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services improvements SQL Server 2016 offers a number of significant enhancements compared to previous versions, such as: The improved Tabular model allows BI developers to solve increasingly complex business problems in an agile and straightforward manner with out-of-the-box support for modeling and calculation scenarios such as percentile and many-to-many patterns. Improvements to the DirectQuery storage mode allow BI developers to utilize data sets from different data sources directly without the need to move the data. Improvements to the high...

By Ana Calderone @anacalderone 03/16/2016 AT 11:15 AM EDT A server at Jack Astor's Bar & Grill in Toronto says she was sent home for wearing her natural hair in a bun. On her third day of training, Akua Agyemfra's manager explained that the chain insists women wear their hair down. When the 20-year-old took her hair out of the bun, she told CBC News that her manager "could see it doesn't go down." "She was really nice about it," said Agyemfra, who added she was not informed of the policy prior to being hired. "But it still doesn't take away from the fact that she sent me home." Kathryn Long, a marketing manager for Jack Astor's, clarified to PEOPLE that their written standards allow an "option to wearing 'hair down' or up in a 'stylish up-do.' " "We work hard to be a responsible, fair and respectful employer, providing a safe and comfortable environment for every staff member," she said. B...

Image: Microsoft News Whether you are a global enterprise in the Fortune 500 or a one-person shop operating out of your kitchen, the key to success in today's business environment is the processing of data. Being able to effectively process data into usable and actionable information is how one gains an edge on the competition. So it should come as no surprise that database management software for large enterprises has become big business for software companies like Microsoft and Oracle. Of course, that also means the competition between vendors of the software is intense and tends to be "no holds barred" from time to time. Microsoft's latest competitive twist is interesting. It will give enterprises a free license for SQL Server if they agree to purchase a Software Assurance subscription and migrate off of Oracle's database management system. Data is everything Data Center Must-Reads In this era of big data and the Internet of Things, proces...

Story highlights Bryan Pagliano, a former Hillary Clinton staffer who help set up her private email server, has accepted an immunity offer from the FBI and the Justice Department to provide an interview to investigators The FBI has been asking for Pagliano's cooperation for months Washington (CNN) Bryan Pagliano, a former Hillary Clinton staffer who helped set up her private email server, has accepted an immunity offer from the FBI and the Justice Department to provide an interview to investigators, a U.S. law enforcement official told CNN Wednesday. The FBI has been asking for Pagliano's cooperation for months as dozens of investigators pored over thousands of Clinton emails in a secure room on the fourth floor of FBI headquarters. The probe shifted into a new phase recently as investigators completed the review of the emails, working with intelligence agencies and the State Department to determine whether they were classified. The Washingto...