A relational database server offering tools for data storage, management, analysis, and reporting, SQL Server Enterprise Edition provides all of these. Business Intelligence Edition and the Enterprise ...

To summarize the difference between the way SQL Server has traditionally taken locks and optimized locking, I'll defer to my MVP colleague Aaron Bertrand, who, in his post on the topic, said ...

What Is the Difference Between Microsoft SSRS, SSIS and SSAS?. Microsoft complements its relational database engine, SQL Server, with several add-on services that manage different aspects of ...

There’s a very handy new tool from Microsoft called the Database Experimentation Assistant (DEA). The DEA makes it very easy to conduct A/B testing for SQL Server upgrades, providing quantitative ...

At its TechEd conference, the company announces "release candidates" of its key database server, SQL Server, plus test versions of security software. Mike Ricciuti joined CNET in 1996. He is now ...