With the official release of Microsoft's latest database offering, let's see what was improved and what still needs some work. Today, at Ignite, Microsoft announced the general availability of SQL ...

Despite its steep licensing costs, SQL Server continues to prove its worth over open-source alternatives in some key areas. SQL Server is an expensive part of your IT stack -- SQL Server Enterprise ...

Before this week, my knowledge of SQL was essentially limited to "SELECT blah FROM blah JOIN blah ON blah WHERE blah". Now I'm being asked to do a little more, and while I think I'm getting up to ...