Spatial queries performance improvements. SQL Server 2012 SP4 can be downloaded from the Microsoft Download Center and will be arriving soon for Visual Studio subscribers.

Microsoft has rolled out another version of SQL Server 2008, dubbed Release 2 Service Pack 3.

Follow your service accounts naming convention if you've got one.<BR><BR>Go to the Services MMC, stop SQL services, Properties > Log On tab, change the login to the account you've created.

In related news, Microsoft announced that the Common Criteria evaluation of SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 1 has been submitted to the German Federal Office for Information Security for certification ...

The final SQL Server 2012 service pack is now available for download. The latest official release for the half-decade-old version of Microsoft's database management system includes a rollup of all ...

Microsoft's second free service pack for SQL Server 2005 aims to make the database software compatible with Vista and Office 2007 Written by Renai LeMay, Contributor Feb. 21, 2007, 1:21 a.m. PT ...

SQL Server now comes bundled with a reporting tool, Reporting Services. RS has generated a lot of attention among developers since it first came on the market about a year ago.

The Microsoft OLE DB Provider is an SQL tool that enables developers to write code that provides an application with ADO access to an SQL database.

SQL Server also is part of the Army’s Battle Command Common Services (BCCS), a tool that teams use in combat. “It allows them to move the business, if you will, of fighting a battle,” says Dan Craytor ...