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 last week announced that volume licensing downloads for SQL Server 2008 R2 are available in all languages, including the public availability of PowerPivot functionality. Customers can now ...

Your Microsoft SQL Server databases keep growing, but your storage hardware - and budget - aren't. You need a powerful, easy to use backup and recovery solution for SQL Server that gets the maximum, ...

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 ...

I'm down on SQL Server Management Studio right now. I basically just spent a day trying to swap out the evaluation version of SQL Server 2008 R2 with the Express version, and SSMS just wouldn't ...

Microsoft Wednesday released a preview of the first service pack for SQL Server 2008, improving deployment tools but adding no new features to the software. Service Pack 1 is a collection of ...

Microsoft has relied on the "better together" concept to sell Windows client and Windows Server as a package. It also has done the same with previous versions of Office and Windows. But on May 12 -- ...

My google-fu is turning up lots of bogus crap and not much useful info.<br><br>I need to set up some SQL databases on a stand alone PC and I don't want to pay for it, or if I do I want to pay very ...

There are some nifty, better-than-SSMS tools that cost nothing to use. One of them is already in your toolbox and you might not know it. I'm down on SQL Server Management Studio right now. I basically ...