Microsoft on Friday posted Service Pack 4 for SQL Server 2000, the first service pack update for the company's flagship database server since early 2003. The major new feature of the service pack is ...

When you decide to undertake your own benchmarking project, it’s a strongly recommended best practice to write up a benchmarking plan. For example, the dev architect might propose that the main OLTP ...

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 ...

With the official release of Microsoft's latest database offering, let's see what was improved and what still needs some work. Today, at Ignite, Microsoft announced the general availability of SQL ...

Microsoft on Wednesday announced the release of SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 3 (SP3). SP3 brings new capabilities to Microsoft's relational database management system. It adds "performance, ...

DH2i, whose vision is enabling enterprise applications to move freely and transparently among physical, virtual and cloud environments, just announced a new approach to enable SQL Server-based ...

Microsoft has released a second free service pack for its popular SQL Server 2005 database application. SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2--a large, recommended bundle of tweaks--aims to make the database ...

Tim Kridel is an independent analyst and freelance writer with years of experience in covering technology, telecommunications and more. Just how much does the Department of Defense rely on Microsoft ...