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. According to the SQL Server Releases blog, its "primarily a roll up of Cumulative Updates as it is the ...

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 ...

Information in this article applies to Microsoft SQL Server 2012. The instructions for earlier versions of SQL Server, including versions 2008 and 2005, are similar.

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.

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 ...