Hmmm…think back to 2005, Microsoft is marketing its plans to release a new version of Microsoft SQL Server (2005) –remember how Microsoft executives were swearing ...

Microsoft rolled out a description of its SQL Server 2012 licensing model on Thursday. Microsoft's up-and-coming relational database management system (formerly code-named "Denali") promises ...

Depreciation of popular management tool requires a new look at Azure-based system Microsoft recently announced it will deprecate System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) Management Packs (MPs) for SQL ...

When I teach a SQL Server Reporting Services class, the question always comes up about licensing and scaling out your implementation in the production environment. The answer is, as always, “it ...

Not long in the past, SQL Server licensing was an easy and straightforward process. You used to take one of a few paths to get your SQL Server licenses. The first and easiest path was to buy your SQL ...

A couple of weeks after announcing plans to bring SQL Server to Linux, Microsoft is providing a few more specifics about its plans. On March 7, Microsoft officials said they planned to make a version ...

The new feature, dubbed StreamInsight, will be added to the new and existing tools that are bundled with a SQL Server license, explains Torsten Grabs, a senior lead program manager at Microsoft. "If ...