The Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Community Technology Preview (CTP) is available @ TechNet . To get it, you'll fill out an online form that will redirect you to the Microsoft Download Center . You'll find Enterprise and Expression editions of SQL Server 2008 R2 in 32-bit, 64-bit, and ia64. SQL Server...

For those of you who write PHP applications, the kit that helps show you how to integrate with the Microsoft stack has been updated. You can download the kit from PHP on Windows Training Kit (April 2009). The PHP on Windows Training Kit includes a comprehensive set of technical content including demos...

SQL Server Driver for PHP is now available for download on the MSDN download site.  The source code to the update has been published on the CodePlex site.  We've modified the source code specifically so that the extension can be compiled and used with the current builds of PHP 5.3. This...

Several updates are available for SQL Server 2008 at the download center. SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 . Includes cumulative update 1 to 3, Quick Fix Engineering (QFE) updates, Slipstream, Service Pack Uninstall, and Report Builder 2.0 Click Once capability. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express Edition...

SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is now available. You can update any SQL Server 2008 edition. Service Pack 1 (SP1) contains all the cumulative updates and fixes issued since SQL Server 2008 was released in August 2008. It also makes it easier to deploy SQL Server 2008.  A few specific features...

Microsoft announced the details of the plans to accelerate the delivery of core relational database features as part of SDS.  SQL Data Services Team blog and the Data Platform Insider Blog . Microsoft will be announcing technical details of the TDS based SDS service at MIX 2009 – www.visitmix.com...

A new set of reference architectures for data warehousing that will help eliminate many of the barriers companies traditionally face while creating data warehouses. For as little as $13,000 per terabyte, SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse gives customers immediate access to pretested, preconfigured...

In deze half-daagse Intrack wordt een overzicht gegeven van de nieuwe datatypen en de mogelijkheden hiermee. Een introductie van begrippen voor niet geo/gis developers. Gebruik van de datatypes vanuit T-SQL, Queries maken, en optimalizeren.  Hoe gebruik je deze nieuwe mogelijkheden vanuit een .NET...

At the Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference this week in Seattle the roadmap for business intelligence (BI) applications written in SQL Server was announced. Codename Gemini The self-service features are wrapped up in a set of technologies code-named Gemini. The idea is to empower users to build...

Does SQL Server 2008 run in a Hyper-V environment? The SQL Server team has published a white paper with performance metrics of running certain workloads with and without Hyper-V. The goal of this document is to help address two key areas of running SQL Server in a Hyper-V environment: · System resource...