Note – This book abbreviates SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services as SSRS and SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services as SSRS2K5. New features available in SSRS and not in SSRS2K5 are labeled with “New in ...

The company on Monday announced the general availability of SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2, which contains a number of key enhancements to the software, including full Windows Vista and Office 2007 ...

On the last day of July, Microsoft made available to testers a new Community Technology Preview (CTP) build of its SQL Server 2008 database, code-named "Katmai." The July CTP build comes one month ...

One of the long-standing differentiators between SQL Server’s Enterprise Edition (EE) and Standard Edition (SE), besides price, were the large number of features available only in EE. This is also ...

One of the great new features of SSMS 2008 is the new debug facility. Query Analyzer had a stored procedure debug facility in SQL Server 2000 but it was not transferred when SQL Server 2005 combined ...

Microsoft provided "performance, scalability and diagnostics improvements" in this week's release of SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 3 (SP3). The company's announcement of the release comes about two ...

The final SQL Server 2012 service pack is now available for download. The latest official release for the half-decade-old version of Microsoft's database management system includes a rollup of all ...

Microsoft today announced that the final service pack for SQL Server 2012 is now available for download. The latest official release for the half-decade-old version of Microsoft's database management ...

Microsoft packed SQL Server 2016 with new advanced features that are supposed to help it compete with a host of other database software. But some of the advanced capabilities in the relational ...

Microsoft on Wednesday announced the release of SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 3 (SP3). SP3 brings new capabilities to Microsoft's relational database management system. It adds "performance, ...

Microsoft packed SQL Server 2016 with new advanced features that are supposed to help it compete with a host of other database software. But some of the advanced capabilities in the relational ...