Whether Microsoft decides to reveal the source code to SQL Server or not, it's clear that open-source alternatives are affecting the decisions of established database providers, Forrester's ...

The software giant is considering making the source code for its SQL Server database available to customers, according to Tom Rizzo, director of product management in Microsoft's SQL Server unit.

John Carroll thinks that anyone with a valid license should have access to Microsoft's SQL Server source code. Rather than a polemic against proprietary software, John makes a practical argument ...

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It feels like a similar sort of unintended consequence is happening each time Microsoft introduces some new, but not fully baked, technology for Transact-SQL and general SQL. One of my big problems ...

This list, issued by Microsoft, has two categories: 1) “Features Not Supported in the Next Version of SQL Server”; and 2) “Features Not Supported in a Future Version of SQL Server”.

Information in this article applies to Microsoft SQL Server 2012. The instructions for earlier versions of SQL Server, including versions 2008 and 2005, are similar.

SQL Server™ code-named “Katmai,” the next release of Microsoft® SQL Server, will help companies access and manage rapidly increasing volumes of data for mission-critical applications, increase their ...

Microsoft formally finished the code last week on a 64-bit version of its flagship database, SQL Server 2000. Officially called SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition (64-bit), it is Microsoft's first ...

Previously Microsoft has made beta code available for OEMs wanting to benchmark 64-bit, Windows-based server systems. NEC Corp., for example, ran a TPC-C benchmark using 32 Itanium 2 processors, ...