A server-side software application that enables databases conformant to a relational data model to be created, managed and queried. Information, most commonly text may be stored as one or more records contained within a table. The table may exist in isolation or have some relationship to other tables. Information may be manipulated using a set of T-SQL or ANSI SQL commands. Several editions of SQL Server 2014 are available, including SQL Server Business Intelligence, Developer, Enterprise, Express, Standard and Web.

Features:

Service Broker

Replication Services using transaction, merge, or snapshot replication

Analysis functionality to perform data mining, OLAP and other services

Report generation services

Enterprise scalability across compute, networking, and storage

Consistent data platform on-premises to cloud

Easy integration with Microsoft Azure