With the official release of Microsoft's latest database offering, let's see what was improved and what still needs some work ...

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SQL Server 2008 has a ton of new DBA features, but if you really want to make this thing go, just crank out a little code. SQL Server 2008 is mostly in the domain of system and database administrators ...

— Today at the 2004 Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) Community Summit in Orlando, Fla., Microsoft Corp. extended its comprehensive data platform by demonstrating new business ...

I use a GUI front end to an SQL server database to do my job, and the program that is used to access the database is very old, made by Sybase, and is dated 1997. Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere 6.0 is ...

Microsoft made a series of database announcements at the Ignite conference, including the general availability of SQL Server ...

As you will see in this chapter, companies use SQL Server for many types of applications and on most tiers now. Gone are the days when you would second guess yourself choosing to use SQL Server over a ...