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Microsoft released the third service pack for SQL Server 2008 last week, and as usual in such cases, the upgrade is accompanied by additional resources that customers can take advantage of.
Case in point: the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3 Feature Pack. The Feature Pack was provided alongside SQL Server... |
10 October 2011
10:17 GMT |
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Microsoft wrapped up and released the third upgrade to SQL Server 2008. Along with SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3, customers running this version of the company’s data platform can also download SQL Server 2008 SP3 Express Edition. As it was the case with SP2, and similar upgrades, SP3 is provided free of cha... |
7 October 2011
06:34 GMT |
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Customers still running SQL Server 2008 can now download a test release of the third major upgrade for their version of Microsoft’s data platform. A Customer Technology Preview of SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3 (SP3) is now available through the Microsoft Download Center to early adopters looking to get a tast... |
23 August 2011
06:58 GMT |
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Microsoft is testing a new Cloud service designed to allow customers to make the best out of their SQL Server deployments. The Community Technology Preview of codename Atlanta is now available for testing, offering proactive monitoring of SQL Server installations via the Cloud. For the time being, the software gian... |
1 December 2010
07:27 GMT |
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Microsoft is getting closer to releasing the second major upgrade for SQL Server 2008, the company having promised to launch Service Pack 2 in the third quarter of 2010. But the company is not quite there yet, and the service pack is still in development at this point in time. However, the software giant is sharing S... |
8 July 2010
03:56 GMT |
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SQL Server 2008 RTM is joining Windows Vista RTM and additional Microsoft products that are no longer supported by the company. Support for SQL Server 2008 RTM is scheduled to end today, April 13, 2010, as per the Service Pack support policy of the software giant. Customers still running the original release of SQL S... |
13 April 2010
07:32 GMT |
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Microsoft will deliver two service packs for older releases of its data platform by the end of this year, the company confirmed. Both SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 and SQL Server 2005 SP4 are planned for general availability in the second half of 2010. Microsoft indicates that it was feedback from customers running ... |
15 February 2010
04:13 GMT |
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Customers leveraging older releases of Microsoft’s data platform should be aware of imminent end of support deadlines and act accordingly by upgrading their IT infrastructure to the latest versions of SQL Server. Companies still running SQL Server 2008 RTM now have just three months to make the jump to the most... |
11 January 2010
06:31 GMT |
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While Microsoft is making its way toward the next generation of its data platform, the company is also kicking up a notch older releases of SQL Server. The free version of SQL Server 2008 is currently available for download, complete with the first service pack released earlier this year. Customers are free to levera... |
11 December 2009
03:56 GMT |
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Customers running older releases of SQL Server should start preparing to migrate to more recent releases of the data platform or risk using the product with no support from Microsoft. Christina Gendrano, program manager, SQL Server Sustained Engineering, has provided a heads-up to the imminent support retirement for ... |
9 October 2009
05:22 GMT |
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Microsoft has opened up access to the first community technology preview of the next generation of its data platform. After shipping SQL Server 2008 R2 to MSDN and TechNet subscribers earlier this week, the Redmond company is now allowing all users to download and start testing the successor of SQL Server 2008. At th... |
13 August 2009
08:58 GMT |
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Microsoft is now offering customers the possibility to bridge MapPoint 2009 and SQL Server 2008 via the MapPoint Add-In for SQL Server. The add-in streamlines the processes of data visualization and manipulation on a MapPoint map. The data needs to of course be stored in an SLQ Server 2008 database. What this means i... |
31 July 2009
07:12 GMT |
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Customers running SQL Server 2008 that have so far stuck with the RTM release of the data platform need to get ready for automatic upgrades to the SP1 milestone. Microsoft revealed that, come September 2009, it would start distributing Service Pack 1 to all customers currently using SQL Server 2008 RTM in their infra... |
31 July 2009
04:37 GMT |
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Microsoft is providing KB955725 in order to help customers make Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 play nice with its data platform. The Knowledge Base article contains a list of known issues associated with the process of installing SQL Server on the next iterations of the Windows client and server operating syste... |
8 July 2009
05:50 GMT |
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SQL Server 2008 has made Microsoft one of the leaders in the Database Management Systems market, according to Forrester Research. In The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Database Management Systems, Q2 2009, released on June 30, 2009, Forrester analyst Noel Yuhanna indicated that Microsoft, along with Oracle and IBM DB2 fo... |
2 July 2009
03:57 GMT |
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Microsoft is little shy of going against competitors by taking a shot at their products, and Oracle is just the latest firm to come into its focus. The Redmond-based company has put together and published a comparison involving SQL Server and Oracle Real Application Clusters. The whitepaper, which is set up to be a c... |
1 June 2009
11:06 GMT |
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On April 30, 2009, Microsoft plans not only to offer MSDN and TechNet subscribers the Release Candidate bits of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 (Windows 7 Server), but also a test of its next data platform. The Redmond company is in fact looking to deliver a sneak peek at the successor of SQL Server 2008, namely... |
27 April 2009
08:20 GMT |
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At the start of April 2009, Microsoft made available for download the first service pack for SQL Server 2008. The end of this month will make the Redmond company's next move in the strategy designed to serve SP1 for the latest iteration of its data platform. In this regard, the software giant announced that a fe... |
24 April 2009
04:37 GMT |
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After the first service pack for SQL Server 2008 was made available earlier this month, Microsoft is now providing the first cumulative update package designed to refresh the release. Cumulative update package 1 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 is offered as a hotfix for this specific milestone of the Redmond compa... |
16 April 2009
04:51 GMT |
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The first Service Pack for SQL Server 2008 has been released to web. SQL Server 2008 SP1 went live on April 7, 2009, and is now available for download in the following language versions: Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Customers running Microsoft's da... |
8 April 2009
05:11 GMT |
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February 2009 was synonymous with Microsoft setting the ETL World Record, a move that the company regarded as both very important and unimportant at the same time. Extract, Transform, Load is a process associated with data warehousing, with a label that is self explanatory, and with various tools associated to it inc... |
4 March 2009
07:40 GMT |
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SQL Server 2008 is evolving toward the Service Pack 1 milestone. At the start of this week, Microsoft made available for download the Community Technology Preview of SQL server 2008 SP1, indicating that the first service pack for its data platform is designed to resolve the issues that have survived past the RTM stag... |
24 February 2009
06:03 GMT |
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Microsoft's SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse is designed, in the Redmond company's perspective, to streamline the deployment of enterprise-class data warehousing projects. With costs as low as $13,000 per terabyte, SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse allows business customers to access new reference ar... |
24 February 2009
04:55 GMT |
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Offered as a new Microsoft Services Premier Support add-on, Premier Mission Critical Support is available worldwide as of February 3, 2009. Premier Support is tailored to the needs of enterprise customers and was designed in order to deliver support for mission-critical solutions. In this manner, the Redmond company ... |
3 February 2009
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Microsoft has been labeled as one of the leaders among the companies providing application infrastructure, according to market analysis firm Gartner. The Redmond company applauded its positioning in the Leaders quadrant of four Gartner Magic Quadrants: the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Bac... |
28 January 2009
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The final version of Microsoft Web Platform Installer 1.0 has been released to web earlier this week. The gold version of the solution is now available as a free download from Microsoft and is designed to centralize all the disparate components of the company's Web Platform. According to the software giant, the ... |
22 January 2009
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The latest version of Microsoft's data platform came to the table with a completely overhauled Activity Monitor. The revamping process meant that the Redmond company not only rewrote the Activity Monitor from scratch, but that it also moved its location in the Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio. Bill Ramos, ... |
29 December 2008
07:54 GMT |
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The latest iteration of SQL Server is safe from a critical vulnerability affecting the Microsoft data platform. In addition to SQL Server 2008, the software giant revealed that SQL Server 7.0 SP4, and SQL Server 2005 SP3 are also not impacted in the least by the security flaw which could allow for remote code executi... |
23 December 2008
14:34 GMT |
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Launched officially at the end of February 2008, concomitantly with Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 was only released to manufacturing at the start of August 2008. Formerly codenamed Katmai, SQL Server 2008 represents not only Microsoft's way of taking its database platform to the next level, but also mixin... |
3 December 2008
08:00 GMT |
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Officially launched in February 2008, but released to manufacturing in early August, SQL Server 2008 is already at the top of the data warehousing and transaction processing game worldwide. The Redmond company applauded the fact that its data management and business intelligence platform could support applications ca... |
7 November 2008
04:43 GMT |
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Microsoft's data platform repertoire is in for a consistent evolution, not only via Gemini and SQL Server codename Kilimanjaro, but also with the project code-named “Madison”. In Microsoft's perspective, “Madison” represents an integration of the advanced data warehousing capabiliti... |
7 October 2008
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Kilimanjaro is no longer just an inactive volcano in Tanzania, as Microsoft has borrowed the name to designate the next iteration of its data platform. SQL Server code-named Kilimanjaro was showcased at the second annual Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) Conference 2008, courtesy of Ted Kummert, corporate vice pr... |
7 October 2008
05:58 GMT |
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Having released SQL Server 2008 to manufacturing at the start of August 2008, Microsoft is moving onward with the delivery of a collection of resources designed to help IT professionals, but also developers and decision makers embrace the new product. SQL Server 2008 was officially launched at the end of Februa... |
29 September 2008
07:29 GMT |
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Seven months after the official launch of SQL Server 2008, and almost two months after the release to manufacturing milestone of the product, Microsoft is applauding its data platform for the high performance delivered in comparison to the price tag. In this regard, the Redmond company cited statistics offered by the... |
23 September 2008
06:00 GMT |
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With Microsoft SQL Server 2008 released to manufacturing at the start of August 2008, the Redmond company is focusing on the evolution of the product via a project based on DATAllegro technology. In less than two years, the software giant plans to integrate the resources that it has acquired concomitantly with DATAll... |
17 September 2008
05:45 GMT |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 S... |
9 June 2008
04:15 GMT |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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