Microsoft is announcing the release to manufacturing (RTM) of SQL Server 2008 R2 on April 21. In fact, the product actually RTM'd a week ago, about a week ahead of schedule, said Tom Casey, General ...

Microsoft Corp. today is introducing updates across its database portfolio as part of general availability announcements for Azure DocumentDB and SQL Server 2025.

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Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2, as well as SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2, are due to move out of extended support over the next few years—SQL Server in July 2019 and Windows Server in January 2020. For ...

Microsoft made available for download for Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) subscribers the promised preview builds of its "Blue" Windows Server and SQL Server releases. Several MSDN subscribers said ...

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Microsoft has issued an advisory that a known critical vulnerability in older versions of Windows SQL Server now has proven attack code, developed by a security firm weary of waiting for a patch to be ...

When in March this year Microsoft announced that it was bringing SQL Server to Linux the reaction was one of surprise, with the announcement prompting two big questions: why and how? SQL Server is one ...

When trying to install SolidWorks on a Windows computer, you may encounter an issue when the installation is trying to install Microsoft SQL Server. So, the installation works fine until it reaches ...

The Linux version of Microsoft SQL Server 2016 v.Next is a viable option for customers who want to deploy the RDBMS on an open source platform, but the early previews lack some features of the core ...