Microsoft has offered the download of SQL Server 2008 with advanced services for FREE, but only suitable for learning and building desktop and small server applications, and for redistribution by ...

Microsoft is bringing improved scalability with the release of its SQL 2008 Server database management platform.

SQL Server 2008 SP3 Express, a free edition of Microsoft's database management system, can be downloaded here. Microsoft also released a Feature Pack for SQL Server 2008 SP3.

Microsoft released SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 this week and announced that it's available for download.

I'm down on SQL Server Management Studio right now. I basically just spent a day trying to swap out the evaluation version of SQL Server 2008 R2 with the Express version, and SSMS just wouldn't ...

With end of support looming for Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008, Microsoft has a new option for those users to keep getting security updates: By moving workloads to Azure.

Microsoft's database releases from 2008 and 2010 reach end of extended support. In response, Redmond says, that for many customers, the time for cloud migration has arrived.