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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 is the most recent version of the Redmond, Wash., company's data management and business intelligence platform. According to Microsoft, the version provides new capabilities ...

Slipstream, which enables administrators to install SQL Server 2008 and Service Pack 1 in a single instance so decreasing the total installation time and reducing the number of reboots. Report Builder ...

The newest version of Microsoft’s venerable relational database has a myriad number of features, but writer Grace Townsend asked Lenni Lobel of Sleek Technologies, Inc. what he thought makes this ...

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