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 themselves; we will still be providing...

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The CTP version of SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is now available. You can use these packages to upgrade any SQL Server 2008 edition. These packages have been made available for general testing purposes only. Do not deploy the CTP software in production. Peer-to-peer support is available in the...

Service Pack 3 for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is now available. SQL Server 2005 service packs are cumulative, and this service pack upgrades all service levels of SQL Server 2005 to SP3. You can use these packages to upgrade any of the following SQL Server 2005 editions: Enterprise Enterprise Evaluation...

Odd Kristoffersen: When will SQL Server 2008 ship? “When it’s ready,” which has been Microsoft’s standard answer for the release to manufacturing (RTM) date of pretty much every Microsoft product, and certainly for all its SQL Server products. But I was talking to a Microsoft representative the other...

I have never seen such a huge patch! Download Size: 137.3 MB - 220.2 MB Anyway this patch arrived through automatic updates on the Bink.nu webserver, when the install was initiated together with the other July patches it failed. After reboot the Bink.nu database was in recovery mode! That is why Bink...

The long wait for SQL Server 2008 is nearly over. At its Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston on July 9, Bob Kelly, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Infrastructure Server Marketing, told attendees that SQL Server 2008 will be on the August price list. He said that Microsoft will keep pricing...

We've long recommended that customers use the Windows Firewall to protect SQL Server installations. Starting with Windows XP/SP2, and continuing with Windows Vista, the firewall has been enabled by default on Windows client operating systems. Windows Server 2008 marks the first time this protection...

SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 Beta is the service pack release for SQL Server Compact 3.5 and it also installs with SQL Server 2008 CTP and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta . The Beta release has the following new features: Support for the ADO.NET Entity Framework for creating flexible, strongly typed queries...

Over the last year we have successfully established the Incremental Servicing Model (ISM), which has to date delivered 7 cumulative updates (CU) to our customers, in regular 8 week intervals. We’ve heard feedback from customers of the need for a third service pack for SQL Server 2005. I’m happy to inform...