Microsoft has relied on the "better together" concept to sell Windows client and Windows Server as a package. It also has done the same with previous versions of Office and Windows. But on May 12 -- ...

After the misery that was 2009, most of the SQL Server users I talk to are happy that 2010 started in languid fashion. Not that there isn't a lot of work to do; on the contrary, there's more work than ...

Microsoft acknowledged today that it had “absolutely” considered replacing the maligned storage engine in its Exchange e-mail server software with its SQL Server database. But “after much debate,” the ...

SharePoint 2010 will require a 64-bit version of SQL Server and it will not support Internet Explorer 6, according to Microsoft. At the company’s annual TechEd ...

In our case, Sharepoint 2007 with SQL Server 2008 R2. The results are pretty consistent. Turn it on and wait, eventually every web on the site will start locking up and web requests will time out.

The way Microsoft sees it, a launch tour is not the same thing as a product launch. The April "SQL Server 2008 R2 Launch" promo described here will be an event celebrating the impending product ...

I have an installation of Sharepoint Foundation 2010 with a SQL 2010 Express backend on a 2008 server. We need to overcome the 10GB/database limit of SQL Express and so we're going to upgrade to SQL ...

Almost 4000 people from 48 different countries congregated in Seattle to mark the beginning of the most attended PASS Summit ever. Thousands more attended via the first ever live-streaming of the ...

With Microsoft this week adding more information about its plans for the next release of its Visual Studio Team System, it bears noting that those that were not keen on upgrading from SQL Server 2005 ...