The company is working on a SQL upgrade that is compatible with Vista - called SQL Server 2005 Express Service Pack 2 - but it's in beta and can be licensed only for testing purposes.

There's a very handy new tool from Microsoft called the Database Experimentation Assistant (DEA). The DEA makes it very easy to conduct A/B testing for SQL Server upgrades, providing quantitative ...

Joey on SQL Server. Deep Dive into SQL Server 2022's Query Performance Features, Part 2: PSP Optimization. Reduce workload times with this handy feature that can benefit every database pro.

Microsoft has released the second service pack for SQL Server, delivering enhancements in several key areas of the widely used database. Full compatibility with Windows Vista is an important ...

As expected, Microsoft made available for download on February 19 the final version of SQL Server 2005, which makes Microsoft's latest database version compatible with Windows Vista.

In the first post in this series, I discussed the emergence of NoSQL to address the need to make databases compatible with cloud needs. And in my last blog post, I talked about the dichotomy ...