Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

Microsoft this week released its long-awaited Beta 2 for SQL Server 2005, the next major release of Microsoft's flagship database that was formerly code-named "Yukon." While the beta includes ...

REDMOND, Wash. — April 19, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 Service Pack 1 (SP1), the product’s first major milestone since the launch of SQL ...

Microsoft ratcheted up its product support for SQL Server 2005 by releasing Service Pack 3 (SP3) on Monday, along with SP3 Cumulative Update 1. Microsoft ratcheted up its product support for SQL ...

REDMOND, Wash., July 26, 2004 — Microsoft Corp. today announced it would add support for the AMD Opteron (TM) with Direct Connect Architecture in Microsoft SQL Server (TM) 2005, the next generation of ...

On Monday, Microsoft announced availability of the much-anticipated beta two version of Visual Studio 2005 and the .Net Compact Framework 2.0, as well as a community technology preview of SQL Server ...

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 ...

Microsoft released Service Pack 2 (SP2) for SQL Server 2005 on Tuesday, a free upgrade available for download, in addition to new virtualization licensing for the database. Microsoft said it will ...

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" ...

Microsoft’s support for SQL Server 2005 ends in April and just like with Server 2003, you should take the end-of-life announcements from Microsoft seriously. End-of-support is headache for CIOs, ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna and two ...

Microsoft began a wide beta testing program of its forthcoming SQL Server 2005 database on Monday, a much anticipated--and delayed--product central to the company's server software line. The second ...