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Microsoft has made some big promises for SQL Server 2008, a major update of its enterprise database product. No precise date has yet been announced for the launch, but the new features have caught the ...

Microsoft on Thursday released Service Pack 3 (SP3) for SQL Server 2008. The new service pack arrives about one year after the release of Service Pack 2. SP3 contains a lot of fixes to the earlier ...

As a training company we always have a dilemma when a new release comes out. The early adopters want the training yesterday so that they can be at the leading (or bleeding) edge of technology. Many ...

In SQL Server 2005, Microsoft introduced the Upgrade Advisor. This was a great idea to be able to analyze your current SQL Server in a safe environment and start the planning process of an important ...

Customers now can download a fully-functional trial version for evaluation, and Microsoft is also making the software available to the Microsoft Developer Network and TechNet subscribers. With SQL ...

Microsoft released SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 this week and announced that it's available for download. The new service pack fixes some minor issues, and not much has apparently changed since ...

With Extended Support for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 ending in July 2019, to be followed six months later by the end of Extended Support for Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 in January 2020 ...

This week we will discuss how to troubleshoot different assembly errors that we get while troubleshooting installs for SQL Server. I’ll focus this article more on SQL Server and Windows systems.

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 ...