Microsoft on Thursday announced new Extended Security Updates plans that add three years of patch support for organizations using SQL Server 2008/R2 and Windows Server 2008/R2 products. The Extended ...

Microsoft makes good on commitment to continue improving older solutions, but the support will eventually end for this version as a newer, cloudified version 2014 takes over. In what is a commitment ...

SQL Server 2008 Release 2 Service Pack 3, the last update for the aging SQL Server version, has been released by Microsoft. According to the SQL Server Releases blog, its "primarily a roll up of ...

The differences between this release and the SQL Server 2008 R2 SP3 release from last week are distinct enough to warrant separate releases. As soon as we told you boldly that SQL Server 2008 R2 SP3 ...

SQL Server 2008 R2, which ships this month, allows end users to tap into the powerful business intelligence features of SQL Server via tight integration with popular Microsoft applications like Excel.

Microsoft has announced the release-to-manufacturing version of SQL Server 2008 R2, the upcoming update of its enterprise database and business intelligence platform. The finalised version of the ...