Microsoft is preparing a tool for release with Visual Studio .NET that will tighten the relationship between Microsoft's .NET Web services vision and its existing SQL Server 2000 database.

XML and Web services. SQL Server “Yukon” will also include substantial advancements for XML and Web services such as support for XQuery and XML, including a native XML datatype. These technologies ...

DBAs also can use the Windows encrypted file system on the database files to provide greater encryption. For Web services, SQL Server 2005 supports the WS Security standard.

The six SQL Server Editions for SQL Server 2008 R2 are Datacenter, Enterprise, Standard, Web, Workgroup and Express. Integration Services is included in the Datacenter and Enterprise editions.

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 ...

Microsoft is inching closer to rolling out SQL Server 2016, with the near-final release candidate due out any day now.

Microsoft is preparing a tool for release with Visual Studio .NET that will tighten the relationship between Microsoft's .NET Web services vision and its existing SQL Server 2000 database.