Microsoft officially announced today on the SQL Server Blog that SQL Server 2014 will be released on April 1st! Always find it funny that Microsoft will release products on April Fools Day, but to them I guess it is just the beginning of another month and quarter for them. For those that are just getting upgraded to SQL Server 2012, now you will already be one version down after April 1st.
In past years this release would have been called SQL Server 2012 R2, but thankfully they have decided to drop the R2 (Release 2) naming on SQL Server products (it is still being used on Windows Server and other server products). See the official blog entry for a list of the new features, mostly just enhancements to the features added in SQL Server 2012. The best new feature that I see is the enhancement to In-Memory ColumnStore Indexes making them updatable! There is also the feature of being able to backup right to Azure, which is great for providing instant off-site backups for your databases.
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