Well, in version R2, the tool offers a new way of looking at managing your server databases. Here's what you'll drool over. I've mentioned the SQL Server Utility briefly in past posts, but I want to ...

LIn recent times, management at scale has been the mantra for many server products. The scale factor is — can I manage multiple instance of my server in the same way and at a centralized place? There ...

Learn how to remove an instance of SQL Server from the SQL Server Utility. You can run a PowerShell script or use SQL Server Management Studio for this task. To use PowerShell to remove a managed ...

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 ...

Here's a quick look at the improvements to the R2 release that I think will be useful come the May release date. Microsoft is nearing completion of the next version of SQL Server. The R2 release ...

SQL Server 2008 R2, which ships this month, allows end users to tap into the powerful business intelligence features of SQL Server via tight integration with popular Microsoft applications like Excel.

To improve failover and reduce costs, PolyServe plans to release software this week designed to help companies consolidate their growing legions of SQL Servers. The company’s SQL Server utility uses ...

When the data to analyse is so huge (millions of records), it takes a lot of time for import into SQL server. The BCP (Bulk Copy Program) utility is a command line that program that helps in ...

Microsoft last week released a community technology preview (CTP) of the next service pack for SQL Server 2008. SQL Server 2008 SP2 CTP can be downloaded here, and the Express Edition version is ...

With Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2, Microsoft begins to fully realize its vision of SQL Server as an information platform and not "just" a database. Hence the main theme for this release -- at least ...