Microsoft gave users another reason to download its free SQL Server Reporting Services add-on when it acquired small, privately held ActiveViews. Actually, “small” in this context is something of a ...

I'm down on SQL Server Management Studio right now. I basically just spent a day trying to swap out the evaluation version of SQL Server 2008 R2 with the Express version, and SSMS just wouldn't ...

Microsoft is offering free licenses for its database software to current Oracle customers in its latest effort to wrestle market share from its competitor. Companies considering switching can apply to ...

It's limited what VSDE member can do with it. Also: SQL Server 2016, when released later this year, will also be free. Tiffany Wissner, Senior Director of Data Platform Marketing with Microsoft, blogs ...

SQL Server 2016 will be available starting June 1, Microsoft announced on Monday. In a blog posted by Tiffany Wissner, senior director of Microsoft's Data Platform Marketing group, the company ...

“Free” is a term rarely associated with Microsoft offerings, especially at the server end of the spectrum. Exchange Server, SQL Server, SharePoint, Hyper-V — IT admins know functionality comes at a ...