Microsoft today noted that organizations running SQL Server 2005 have less than a year before the product's lifecycle support will come to an end. SQL Server 2005 will exit its "extended support" ...

If you're using SQL Server 2005 as a key database for IT operations, it's time to start thinking about a replacement, because you've just got one year left. SQL Server 2005 will exit its "extended ...

With just a short amount of time to go until Microsoft officially kills off SQL Server 2005—i.e., no more hotfixes or security updates—the installed base of 800,000 to more than 2 million servers ...

Microsoft’s first major release of SQL Server in many years includes such sweeping improvements that it’s sometimes hard to see the old SQL Server underneath. Not a single area of the database remains ...

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 ...

Sometimes it’s hard to keep up with all the 2005 this and 2008 that from Microsoft. I’m frequently amazed that Microsoft’s product management can not only keep it all straight, but can also coordinate ...

Microsoft signaled the end of support today for its SQL Server 2005 product. The 10-year-old server has fallen out of Microsoft's "extended support" product lifecycle phase. SQL Server 2005 will no ...

Microsoft has released a second free service pack -- a large, recommended update -- for its popular SQL Server 2005 database application. The update makes SQL Server 2005 compatible with Microsoft's ...

A year from now, Microsoft will stop supporting SQL Server 2005 entirely, so the push is on to migrate customers to newer editions or to Azure Earlier this week, Microsoft reminded SQL Server 2005 ...

Alan Joch has been an independent business and technology writer for more than a decade. His expertise includes server and desktop virtualization, cloud computing, emerging mobile applications, and ...

Topic title says it all.<BR><BR>SQL 2000 setup used to ask this during the setup process. SQl 2005 does not.<BR><BR>Moving the system DBs after the setup completes is a pain in the ass. I'd rather ...