Microsoft today released the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 for anyone who wants to grab it from TechNet. To get it, you'll have to fill out an online form ...

The 2008 version of Microsoft SQL Server, a relational database management system that uses Transact-SQL as its primary query language, has finally hit the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) milestone.

Microsoft on Thursday released Service Pack 3 (SP3) for SQL Server 2008. The new service pack arrives about one year after the release of Service Pack 2. SP3 contains a lot of fixes to the earlier ...

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It's not 2008 anymore. Joey details the ins and outs of upgrading these aging Microsoft servers, including licensing changes, support options and potential pitfalls. It was a simpler time. A decade ...

SQL Server, Microsoft's flagship operational database, has been around for over a quarter century now. That has meant successive waves of innovation for the platform, but has also made for ...

Both editions of SQL Server Reporting Services are supported, but Enterprise Edition is required if you plan to use Data-Driven subscriptions and scale out deployment. These features are not available ...

SQL Server 2008 introduces the ability to pass a table data type into stored procedures and functions. The table parameter feature can greatly ease the development process because you no longer need ...