Microsoft announced today that SQL Server 2008 R2 is released to manufacturing just 20 months after SQL Server 2008, the platform on which it is built. SQL Server 2008 R2 (codenamed Kilimanjaro) ...

SQL Server 2008 R2, which ships this month, allows end users to tap into the powerful business intelligence features of SQL Server via tight integration with popular Microsoft applications like Excel.

Microsoft's "interim" R2 release of its database platform, is due out by May this year. While a number of new features have been introduced, such as the SQL Server Utility, there have been some "under ...

I'm down on SQL Server Management Studio right now. I basically just spent a day trying to swap out the evaluation version of SQL Server 2008 R2 with the Express version, and SSMS just wouldn't ...

How Do I Download And Install Sql Server 2008 Management Studio? The download link for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Management Studio Express can be found here. then choose ...

Database troubleshooting is not for the faint of heart, especially when it comes to troubleshooting locking and blocking problems. Sometimes the elephant in the room is actually a rhino, a problem ...

Microsoft today released the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 for anyone who wants to grab it from TechNet. To get it, you’ll have to fill out an online form ...

An application that is based on Visual Studio for developing solutions for SSIS, SSAS, or SSRS is called Business Intelligence Development Studio, or BIDS. With SQL Server 2005, it was introduced. It ...

Microsoft’s Active Directory has enabled Group Policy since Windows 2000. Policies can be set once then applied continually to hundreds or even thousands of machines within a network enabling central ...

There are some nifty, better-than-SSMS tools that cost nothing to use. One of them is already in your toolbox and you might not know it. I'm down on SQL Server Management Studio right now. I basically ...