Customers now can download a fully-functional trial version for evaluation, and Microsoft is also making the software available to the Microsoft Developer Network and TechNet subscribers. With SQL ...

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Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2, as well as SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2, are due to move out of extended support over the next few years—SQL Server in July 2019 and Windows Server in January 2020. For ...

If you’re like many small business owners, the news that Microsoft is weeks away from the release of a new version of SQL Server 2008 could seem utterly irrelevant to your interests. But it isn’t.

SQL Server, Microsoft's flagship operational database, has been around for over a quarter century now. That has meant successive waves of innovation for the platform, but has also made for ...

A step up from Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 is faster and stuffed with must-have features for Windows networks. But the platform's push for 64-bit operation may make some folks wait. Finally, late ...

A step up from Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 is faster and stuffed with must-have features for Windows networks. But the platform's push for 64-bit operation may make some folks wait. Finally, late ...

Finally, late in February, shipping versions of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 made it into users' hands. I checked out a copy of Server 2008 Enterprise installed on our current server Editors' Choice, ...

Microsoft has added two years of optional extended support for Windows Server 2008 to its product-support roadmap. Originally, Windows Server 2008 was supposed to move from free, mainstream support, ...