Microsoft already has a limited version of the SQL Server database online, but it plans to have a full version up before Windows Azure's release Microsoft, which last year announced plans to bring a ...

In the age of big data, efficiently managing relational databases, particularly SQL Server, may be the single most important issue facing a growing number of CIOs and data center managers. Throughout ...

I have been continuing my SQL Server 2008 testing and embarked on evaluating the new version of Reporting Services. You may remember that this part of the product caused some concern on my part during ...

(Windows Azure SQL Database, on the other hand, is only a subset of the full SQL Server database platform). Renting a SQL Server by the hour is very appealing to a lot of customers due to the nature ...

Microsoft announced a roadmap shift, indicating that it will focus on supporting Open Database Connectivity for SQL Server application programming interfaces in the near future. The shift is of ...