In this episode of eSpeaks, Jennifer Margles, Director of Product Management at BMC Software, discusses the transition from traditional job scheduling to the era of the autonomous enterprise. eSpeaks’ ...

Despite the plentiful information in Books Online and on the official “SQL Server 2000 Security” document Microsoft offers online, setting up a truly secure SQL Server remains a difficult task. In ...

My colleague, senior editor, Kathleen Richards was at MIX08 in Las Vegas two weeks ago. Suffice to say she received a brain dump on Silverlight and a number of other big announcements there. When she ...

SQL Server 2012, which will launch some time in the first few months of 2012, has a lot of moving parts. Exactly how is Microsoft going to bundle up its various capabilities? We know a bit about the ...

Perhaps this is your first time reading my column or you don’t know much about SQL Server. If either of those are true, then it might be a surprise to you that Microsoft has accelerated the release ...

Managing SQL Server across hybrid and multi-cloud environments has long posed a challenge for database administrators. With data sprawled across on-premises infrastructure, cloud platforms, and edge ...

Microsoft promises no price hike for SQL Server 2008 and lays out data warehousing, data types, management and developer improvements in new database slated to ship next year. DENVER – On top of new ...

In the several weeks leading up to the PASS Virtual Summit in November, I had the good fortune to work with several members of the SQL Server team at Red Hat. They included people such as Louis ...