Microsoft on Thursday released Service Pack 3 for SQL Server 2008.

Note – This book abbreviates SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services as SSRS and SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services as SSRS2K5. New features available in SSRS and not in SSRS2K5 are labeled with ...

While the Microsoft SQL Server Engineering team confirmed that no cumulative updates for Service Pack 4 will be released, hotfixes for bugs will continue as needed. SQL Server 2012 customers can ...

I'm not much of a BATCH scripter (More of a BASH scripter) but I have an issue I need to work out and would like some help (Though I've probably already hexed myself by admitting I work in Linux). I'm ...

Whether you call it a "mid-course correction" or a reset, Microsoft is rethinking its "SQL Server Services in the cloud" strategy.

Fix Windows could not start the SQL Server Reporting Services service on Local Computer error by following these working solutions.

A Java Web application often uses a SQL Server database. SQL Server now comes bundled with a reporting tool, Reporting Services. RS has generated a lot of attention among developers since it first ...

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 ...

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 ...

Joshua Jones is co-author of A Developer's Guide to Data Modeling for SQL Server: Covering SQL Server 2005 and 2008 (Addison-Wesley Professional, 2008) and is a principal with Denver-based Consortio ...