With best-in-class ease of use on the Windows platform, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 SP2 combines strong administration abilities with leading-edge XML support. Though it's still Windows-centric, ...

Microsoft released SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 2 this week. The SP2 release goes by the "RTM" (release to manufacturing) nomenclature, according to Microsoft's announcement. That's an old-fashioned ...

Microsoft announced this week that it is having problems with ISO releases of SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 2. Service Pack 2 for SQL Server 2012 was released last month. However, there's a problem ...

As expected, Microsoft made available for download on February 19 the final version of SQL Server 2005. The new update makes SQL Server 2005 compatible with Windows Vista. It also adds a few new ...

Yesterday, Microsoft released a patch for a flaw in SQL Server 2005 SP2 that affected both existing and new maintenance plans and Integration Services packages. Although not every SQL Server 2005 ...

SQL Server isn't on the kind of update schedule that characterizes Visual Studio these days, when it's unusual for two months to go by without some sort of release. But one version is getting a new ...

We tested SQL Server, with SP2 installed, on Windows 2000 Advanced Server. Unlike DB2, Oracle9i, and Sybase ASE, SQL Server relies on Windows for clustering. The Enterprise Manager has a graphical ...

Microsoft this week released SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 2. The SP2 release goes by the "RTM" (release to manufacturing) nomenclature, according to Microsoft's announcement. That's an old-fashioned ...

SQL Server 2005 Service Pack (SP) 2, which is designed to work on Windows Vista and Longhorn Server test builds, is expected to go live any day now. On his "Semi-Useful BI Musings" blog, Russell ...

Microsoft said that Service Pack 2 for SQL Server 2012 will be released "later this year." Microsoft first released SQL Server 2012 back in April 2012. Service Pack 1 arrived in November of that year.

433051 – SQL Server Integration Services service failed to start after installing SP1 The service startup delay occurs because .NET verifies signature of the files and it needs to consult certificate ...