SQL Server 2008 has a ton of new DBA features, but if you really want to make this thing go, just crank out a little code. SQL Server 2008 is mostly in the domain of system and database administrators ...

SEATTLE — May 9, 2007 — Today at the first Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) Conference, Microsoft Corp. presented its vision for the next version of its flagship data management and analysis ...

Integration of Python for data science, graph processing for NoSQL-like functionality, and it runs on Linux as well as Windows. At almost 30 years of age, Microsoft's flagship database has learned ...

SQL Server (TM) 2000 came out a winner in the recently published 2001 Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) Survey conducted by Survey.com and published by The OLAP Report. OLAP is one of the hottest ...

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Microsoft has failed to meet its goal of issuing a new community technology preview (CTP) of SQL Server 2008 database every 60 days, but company officials promised certain key new features will be ...

Perhaps. The software giant is considering making the source code for its SQL Server database available to customers, according to Tom Rizzo, director of product management in Microsoft’s SQL Server ...

Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system (RDBMS) that supports a wide variety of transaction processing, business intelligence and analytics applications in corporate IT ...