In SQL Server 2005, Microsoft introduced the Upgrade Advisor. This was a great idea to be able to analyze your current SQL Server in a safe environment and start the planning process of an important ...

Brien M. Posey is a freelance technical writer who has contributed to dozens of books and is a six-time Microsoft MVP award winner. SQL Server 2005 reaches its end-of-life milestone on April 12, the ...

Many considerations go into evaluating whether it is time to implement an upgrade to a new version of SQL Server. You need to think about socket vs. core licensing ...

There’s a very handy new tool from Microsoft called the Database Experimentation Assistant (DEA). The DEA makes it very easy to conduct A/B testing for SQL Server upgrades, providing quantitative ...

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 ...

The next version of SQL Server, Microsoft’s flagship database product, will launch on June 1, the company announced today. The release follows Microsoft’s usual round of public previews and release ...

Yesterday, Microsoft clarified that the so-called new SQL Server is not code-named Kilimanjaro. The Kilimanjaro project does exist, however, and while it does refer to a bigger mountain than Katmai ...

Coverage of Google’s sold-out annual cloud conference in San Francisco, as the search giant looks to extend its reach and build its momentum in the cloud. by Tom Krazit on Apr 10, 2019 at 9:00 am ...