SQL Server, Microsoft's flagship operational database, has been around for over a quarter century now. That has meant successive waves of innovation for the platform, but has also made for ...

Google today is pulling the beta label off of three of its cloud-based data storage services: the second-generation Cloud SQL, Cloud Bigtable, and Cloud Datastore. But Google is also announcing ...

SQL Server support is available for a significantly longer period than this, however, reflecting the importance and complexity of the platform and any migrations. Mainstream support for SQL 2000 ended ...

With end of support looming for Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008, Microsoft has a new option for those users to keep getting security updates: By moving workloads to Azure.

Microsoft signaled the end of support today for its SQL Server 2005 product.

SIOS rolls SQL Server support into VMware management suite - SiliconANGLESIOS claims the integration with SQL Sentry Performance Advisor permits administrators to link in context from a SQL ...

Joey on SQL Server End of Support: SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 Upgrade Options It's not 2008 anymore. Joey details the ins and outs of upgrading these aging Microsoft servers ...

Windows Server and SQL Server currently receive new features, security, and non-security updates from Microsoft during the initial five-year Mainstream Support period.

But there is more! SQL Server 2019 will come with built-in support for Spark and the Hadoop File System. That’s an acknowledgement of the popularity of these open-source tools, as well as the ...

Native support for JSON in the upcoming SQL Server 2016 was buried among the many goodies announced earlier this month for the flagship RDBMS, but it's the feature most requested by data developers, ...

SQL Server 2016 is expected to offer native support for working with JSON. The first iteration of this support will be released as part of SQL Server 2016’s CTP 2.