An opportunity to speak with Sabrena McBride, Senior Product Manager for SQL Server, provided a lot of insight into what's new in R2. Some of the highlights: Among other things, SQL Server 2008 R2 is ...

The much-anticipated Maestro, officially dubbed the Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005, is scheduled to be widely available Nov. 1 and cost $5,000 per server plus $175 per client-access license, ...

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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 ...

David Galner from Microsoft’s Excel team said in a blog post Thursday that the company is planning to offer a server-based version of the popular spreadsheet application. Customers have been talking ...