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 ...

Each version of Microsoft’s SQL Server comes with five years of full support, followed by five years of security-only updates. Here are five questions to ask before your next upgrade. 1. Should My ...

A conference being held in Denver this week by the Professional Association for SQL Server user group will provide a forum for the biggest public unveiling to date of Microsoft Corp.’s SQL Server 2008 ...

While this risk is bigger than the upgrade risk (a change to the cardinality estimator in the SQL Server 2014 optimizer impacted a lot of workloads), there are easy ways to mitigate against that. SQL ...

Microsoft is changing some of its licensing rules, which are already complex. Here’s what small businesses should know.

Microsoft's relational database engine has had the same licensing model since 2012. The new version released this week brings significant changes that brings SQL Server closer to Azure SQL's licensing ...