When Microsoft launches its 64-bit version of SQL Server at the end of April, the database will cost the same as the 32-bit version, perform better, and be part of the company's bid to oust Oracle and ...

The next version of SQL Server, Microsoft’s flagship database product, will launch on June 1, the company announced today. The release follows Microsoft’s usual round of public previews and release ...

I have users complaining about slow performance in one of our internal applications. The application is, essentially, a front end to a SQL database. We've built a new server for it because the old one ...

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The ‘Suspect’ mode of the SQL database indicates that the recovery process has started but failed to complete. The database goes into suspect mode if the primary data file is damaged or the database ...

While working with SQL Server databases, if you often find the database performance sluggish, it could be due to bad coding of procedures or incorrectly set database variables. Here's a tool that can ...

Server is a dual 3.4ghz Xeon w/ 4GB of RAM running Windows 2003 and SQL Server 2000 Standard. Nothing runs on the box other than SQL Server. DB-wise, just the db I'm having problems with [we'll call ...

Just two weeks after shipping a major new service pack for SQL Server 2005, Microsoft is having to issue a hotfix to correct a problem some customers experienced with the update. Microsoft first ...

Microsoft Corp. has started a testing program for its Virtual Server 2004, a software product that allows users to run different operating systems on a single hardware server. The product has been ...