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SQL Server 2008 Has Been Released to Manufacturing

SQL Server 2008 was launched on February 27, 2008 alongside Windows Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008, but the platform was only released to manufacturing on August 6, 2008, and is available for download only to MSDN and TechNet subscribers. The Redmond company promised that the downloads for the SQL Server 2008 Exp...

7 August 2008
09:32 GMT

Surf's Up for Eye on Earth via Virtual Earth

Surf's up for Eye on Earth powered by Microsoft's Virtual Earth and SQL Server 2008. A joint initiative of the Redmond giant and the European Environment Agency, Eye on Earth - Water Watch, is designed to provide an online service set up to monitor the quality of bathing water across 27 European countries. ...

31 July 2008
07:08 GMT

SQL Server 2008 RC0 Available for Download

Despite the fact that SQL Server 2008 accompanied Windows Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 at the Heroes Happen Here launch event in February 2008, Microsoft is just now making available for download the first Release Candidate of the product. François Ajenstat, director of marketing for SQL Server, provided an SQL...

9 June 2008
04:15 GMT

New Windows Server 2008-Based Server Products Available

Windows Essential Server Solutions are basically designed as a bundle of SQL Server 2008, Exchange Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008, along with additional Microsoft technologies, set up as an all-in-one IT offering for small and midsize customers. As of May 13, 2008, Microsoft is debuting the test drive process of...

13 May 2008
11:47 GMT

All Microsoft Service Packs Are Not Equal, Just Vista SP1 and XP SP3

All Microsoft service packs are not created equal in terms of the "translucency" factor, just Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP SP3. But then again only the Windows client products and Windows Live are under the gag of Steven Sinofsky, Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, who j...

16 April 2008
03:17 GMT

Performing 1 GB per Second Backups

Backup capabilities are a critical aspect of data management, and in this context, the performance of such features ultimately reflect the success of the Data Platform. On February 27, 2008, Microsoft celebrated the worldwide launch of Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008, and SQL Server 2008, via the Heroes Happe...

3 March 2008
06:27 GMT

Windows Server 2008 - Heroes Happen(ed) Here

The Heroes Happen Here official launch event for Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008, represents the kick start of Microsoft's vision for what the company's Chief Executive Officer, Steve Ballmer, referred to as a dramatic step forward in terms of a new level of security, in virtuali...

28 February 2008
01:54 GMT

SQL Server 2008 Hits Feature Complete CTP

With Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 1 and Visual Studio 2008 having already been released to manufacturing, Microsoft is moving onward to the RTM date of SQL Server 2008. An integral part of the Heroes Happen Here launch on February 27, 2008 in Los Angeles, SQL Server 2008 is the sole product that is yet to be fin...

20 February 2008
03:46 GMT

Microsoft Business Intelligence Nothing Short of Magic

Microsoft is nothing short of magic. At least as far as the company's business intelligence platform goes, from the perspective of market analyst firm Gartner. Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 2008, the Redmond company has applauded its presenc...

6 February 2008
03:36 GMT

The Real Reason Behind the Delay of SQL Server 2008

When Francois Ajenstat, director of marketing for SQL Server, announced that SQL Server 2008, codenamed Katmai, would be released to manufacturing no sooner than the third quarter of 2008, the move was equivalent with a delay for existing SQL 2005 customers and for those who had followed the development of the curren...

29 January 2008
08:40 GMT

Katmai - SQL Server 2008 - Pushed to the Third Quarter of 2008

Not only will Microsoft not have wrapped up its "server homework" by February 27, but that while lateness was a given, the company is pushing even further back into 2008 the availability of one of the products scheduled for launch next month. At the end of February, Microsoft has planned the Heroes Happen Here launch...

28 January 2008
06:29 GMT

The Super Bowl of Windows Server 2008

There is little secret at this point in time that Microsoft is gearing up for the availability of Windows Server 2008. The Redmond company's last 32-bit server operating system is scheduled for its launch event Heroes Happen Here on February 27, 2008, in Los Angeles. And Windows Server 2008 will not go to custom...

22 January 2008
07:45 GMT

Microsoft Applauds an Infrastructure Success Story

With the spotless performance delivered by ShopLocal during the online shopping frenzy synonymous with the 2007 holiday season, Microsoft is applauding a success story of an infrastructure built with its own technology. The Redmond company revealed that ShopLocal featured Microsoft software at the back-end, and that ...

9 January 2008
03:43 GMT

Microsoft Applauds Its SQL Server Integration with SAP

Microsoft is, by no means, shy about boating the high level of integration of its SQL Server solutions and SAP. In this context, the Redmond company has offered a variety of examples, featuring companies that have successfully turned to SQL Server for running SAP applications. The stress fell on the lack of complexit...

6 December 2007
05:51 GMT

SQL Server 2008 and Exchange Server 2007 VHDs Up for Grabs

Microsoft is serving up a comprehensive collection of free resources, built around its top products and designed to permit users to test-drive a luxuriant variety of solutions, before dropping a single cent on them. The latest two such examples involve SQL Server 2008 and Exchange Server 2007. Two virtual hard disk i...

5 December 2007
06:49 GMT

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 November 2007 CTP

The latest development milestone of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 is now available for download. Ted Kummert, corporate vice president, Data and Storage Platform Division at Microsoft announced since the past week that the company was gearing up for the November Community Technology Preview of SQL Server 2008. Fitting in...

22 November 2007
04:18 GMT

Microsoft Is One Step Closer to "Your Data, Any Place, Any Time" Vision

Microsoft is one step closer to delivering on its vision of "Your Data, Any Place, Any Time," with the upcoming milestone of SQL Server 2008. Ted Kummert, corporate vice president, Data and Storage Platform Division at Microsoft announced that the company is getting ready to make available the November Community Tech...

13 November 2007
11:58 GMT

Microsoft Data Warehousing - Nothing Short of Magic

Microsoft's Data Warehousing solution is nothing short of magic. When it comes down to integrated data management and analysis products, the Redmond company is offering SQL Server 2005, as an alternative to offerings from Teradata, Oracle and IBM. The Microsoft SQL Server 2005 software designed for the data ware...

15 October 2007
04:23 GMT

Fresh Office 2007 Download - Office PerformancePoint Server 2007

Microsoft revealed that it currently plans to make Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 available as early as next month, while SQL Server 2008 will be delivered sometime in the second quarter of 2008. The two products are an integer part of the Redmond company's lineup of offerings for the Business Intelligence ...

21 August 2007
09:43 GMT




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