SQL Server 2008 SP2 enables organizations to extend the value of the Utility Control Point to instances of SQL Server 2008 SP2 without having to upgrade those servers to SQL Server 2008 R2. For more ...

Organizations will gain deeper insights into all of their data with new capabilities that go beyond business intelligence to perform advanced analytics directly within their database and present rich ...

Microsoft released SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 2 this week. The SP2 release goes by the "RTM" (release to manufacturing) nomenclature, according to Microsoft's announcement. That's an old-fashioned ...

Microsoft announced this week that it is having problems with ISO releases of SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 2. Service Pack 2 for SQL Server 2012 was released last month. However, there's a problem ...

As expected, Microsoft made available for download on February 19 the final version of SQL Server 2005. The new update makes SQL Server 2005 compatible with Windows Vista. It also adds a few new ...

Yesterday, Microsoft released a patch for a flaw in SQL Server 2005 SP2 that affected both existing and new maintenance plans and Integration Services packages. Although not every SQL Server 2005 ...

Microsoft this week released SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 2. The SP2 release goes by the "RTM" (release to manufacturing) nomenclature, according to Microsoft's announcement. That's an old-fashioned ...

SQL Server isn't on the kind of update schedule that characterizes Visual Studio these days, when it's unusual for two months to go by without some sort of release. But one version is getting a new ...

SQL Server 2005 Service Pack (SP) 2, which is designed to work on Windows Vista and Longhorn Server test builds, is expected to go live any day now. On his "Semi-Useful BI Musings" blog, Russell ...

Well, SQL Server SP2 Nov CTP is being released today so I hope you’re all ready for it. The CTP will officially open up today at 3pm PST.

We tested SQL Server, with SP2 installed, on Windows 2000 Advanced Server. Unlike DB2, Oracle9i, and Sybase ASE, SQL Server relies on Windows for clustering. The Enterprise Manager has a graphical ...