It’s not an unexpected development, as SQL Server 2005 has been in the “extended support” phase of its lifecycle since April 2011. But as with its other server products approaching end of ...

SQL Server 2005 SP2 will be the only release of the database that Microsoft will support for its Windows Vista OS and upcoming Longhorn server, due for a final release in the second half of this year.

This is good news as most customers are waiting on an upgrade decision for SQL Server 2008 but still want the latest updates for 2005. It’s almost been a year since SP2 so this is well overdue.

Sure, some companies may have been paying for SQL Server solely to access features not found in the Express SKU, and they may now save that money, but the company hopes that this will be offset by ...

Microsoft rolled out another round of prerelease versions of Visual Studio 2005, .Net Framework 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 as it strives to hit its revised ship dates during the second half of the year.