Service Pack 1 for SQL Server 2008 will be available today forcustomers. The Service pack.... While there are no new features in this service pack, customers running SQL Server 2008 should download... Server 2008. Customers have no reason to wait to upgrade to SQL Server 2008 and many are already

) for Service Pack 1 of SQL Server 2008. This scheduled servicing release addresses feedback received from many of you who have deployed SQL Server 2008 since our release back in August 2008.   ...(and hopefully yours!) in the quality of the initial release of SQL Server 2008. We know that some of you wait

Today, SQL Server 2008 R2 received an official release date. It will be listed on Microsoft’s May price list, and will be available by May 2010. SQL Server 2008 R2 showcases Microsoft’s continued... and PowerPivot for SharePoint “SQL Server 2008 R2 is freeing up our IT departments to focus on bigger

We'd like toannouncethe Common Criteria (CC) certification of SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition (32 & 64 bit). SQL Server 2008 completed an IT security evaluation at the Basic Assurance Level... security of SQL Server 2008 and demonstrates Microsoft’s continued commitment to our customers

. The next release, SQL Server 2008 R2 (formerly SQL Server ‘Kilimanjaro’), will include a new feature: Master Data Services (MDS). In addition to SQL Server 2008 R2, Microsoft is talking about a new...) of SQL Server 2008 R2 will be available in the second half of 2009 and we are on track to ship SQL

Server 2008 R2 Community Technology Preview. We’re happy to announce that it is available today for MSDN... which include: Support for Windows Server 2008 R2, including Hyper-V with Live Migration Enhanced data... Point Explorer in SQL Server Management Studio for central multi-instance and application utilization

Last week, we announced the availability of the SQL Server 2008 R2 November CTP. Today we are excited to share that the SQL Server 2008 R2 PowerPivot downloads for Microsoft Excel 2010 and Microsoft... that are published to Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2. Enable Sharing

The SQL Server 2008 R2 August Community Technology Preview (CTP) rollout continues today... Server StreamInsight is officially shipping as a component of SQL Server 2008 R2, which..., and be sure to check out other SQL Server 2008 R2 community technology previews on the site

of the November CTP of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2. Microsoft also announced two new premium editions of SQL Server for high-end, mission critical scenarios, SQL Server 2008 R2 Datacenter and SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse and a new partnership with IBM for SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse

the enterprise market.” And that SQL Server 2008 has “enabled Microsoft to take market share... multi-terabyte databases with SQL Server to support critical applications. Today, hundreds of enterprises are running 10-terabyte and larger transactional SQL Server databases.” Key findings

of Reference Architectures for SQL Server 2008 that enables customers to accelerate their Data Warehouse... their SQL Server 2008 licenses through their preferred Microsoft Partner and the hardware from Dell... on SQL Server 2008, allowing customers to fully leverage their investment in Fast Track Data

the Microsoft SQL Server JDBC Server v2.0. If you’re on Twitter, you can follow and contribute... we will be presenting a number of great SQL Server content opportunities– nearly 100 in all! Break... across 3 different tracks will be running all week, including: What's New in Microsoft SQL Server

to ship the product as Master Data Services in the SQL Server 2008 R2 release. Let me explain what Master

delivery of these features by exposing SQL Server’s existing network protocol, Tabular Data Stream (TDS...At the Professional Developer Conference 2008 Microsoft kicked off a major wave of innovation with the announcement of the Azure Services Platform. A key piece of that technology wave is SQL Data

application platform technologies, including Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008. With the expanded platform support in BizTalk Server 2009, customers can now... Communication Foundation (WCF) based adapters – for SQL Server and Oracle E-Business Suite. We're happy

and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2. With PowerPivot, users and IT departments can:  Integrate massive amounts... Steven Ballmer and Jeff Teper kicking off the conference. The SQL Server, ADO.NET Data Services... announced the official name of Project “Gemini,” now Microsoft SQL Server PowerPivot for Excel

2008? A: SQL Server delivers great scale up today to 10s of TB. PDW will scale out to hundreds... of SMS in SQL Server 2008 R2. Q: How are you making Application and Multi-Server Management features available? A: StreamInsight will ship as part of SQL Server 2008 R2. Q: Where is Oracle on cloud

in the Gray Systems Lab, for receiving the prestigious 2008 ACM Software System Award for their work on the Gamma Parallel Database System. From the ACM award: The Gamma Parallel Database System (2008

how Microsoft and its partners are trying to help customers realize the key benefits of SQL Server consolidation. As customers try to reduce costs, they are looking at SQL Server consolidation.... The SQL Server product team recently published prescriptive guidance for SQL Server consolidation

You are hearing it here first: Microsoft is updating the branding for SQL Services and SQL Data Services. Effective immediately, SQL Services will be called Microsoft SQL Azure, and SQL Data Services will be Microsoft SQL Azure Database. This name change doesn’t reflect a change in the products