SQL Server 2005 also promises better performance. I didn’t run performance benchmarks for this review, but in addition to allowing DBAs to partition the database to balance load, Microsoft has done a ...

Microsoft will end security support for SQL Server 2005 in April 2016, and companies must prepare to upgrade. According to Tiffany Wissner, senior director of data platform marketing at Microsoft, ...

For many, is Black Friday an unpleasant memory: slow-moving lines out the door for the hottest products and best deals, long waits at the check-out counter, and traffic jams in parking lots make for ...

Microsoft’s support for SQL Server 2005 ends in April and just like with Server 2003, you should take the end-of-life announcements from Microsoft seriously. End-of-support is headache for CIOs, ...

SQL Server 2005 has under a year until it reaches end-of-life status, where there will be no further updates for security purposes and no official support available from Microsoft. Meanwhile, IT is ...

DL380, 16GB RAM, 64bit OS/SQL<BR><BR>1 small but high performance required DB.<BR><BR>3 x RAID1s?<BR><BR>OS/DATA/TLOGS?<BR><BR>or<BR><BR>1xRAID1 and a RAID10?<BR><BR ...

Microsoft late Monday issued a pre-patch advisory confirming a remote code execution vulnerability affecting its SQL Server line. The vulnerability, publicly disclosed with exploit code more than two ...

Ahead of Microsoft Build (and a possible SQL Server announcement), let's break down what we know and speculate about what we don't. One topic that has come up in several conversations with customers ...

Microsoft is readying a free version of SQL Server and low-cost versions of developer tools for enthusiasts and non-professional users. The company announced that later this week it will post beta ...

Yes, SQL Server 2005 allowed us for the first time to encrypt individual sensitive columns without the use of third-party products. However, the implementation required application code changes using ...