The next-generation edition of Microsoft's flagship relational database system, SQL Server 2017, took a step closer to general availability with this week's launch of the first Release Candidate.

Microsoft released SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 2 this week. The SP2 release goes by the "RTM" (release to manufacturing) nomenclature, according to Microsoft's announcement.

Introduction In the realm of enterprise computing, selecting the optimal operating system (OS) for database management is critical to performance, security, and scalability. Two prominent contenders ...

The venerable relational database management system is now feature-complete, with support for Linux and containers running on Linux and Mac OS X, and it's available as a release candidate this week.

The company is reminding organizations that as of April 12, it will no longer be supporting database management system SQL Server 2005 – which, despite its age, Microsoft estimates is still used ...

Microsoft is offering SP2 in 32-bit and 64-bit versions for SQL Server 2012, as well as the Management Studio and Express versions. Also released this week are SQL Server 2012 SP2 Report Builder ...