SQL Server, Microsoft's flagship operational database, has been around for over a quarter century now. That has meant successive waves of innovation for the platform, but has also made for ...

SQL Server 2012 is no longer a supported product, Microsoft announced on Tuesday. The product, on July 12, 2022, reached the end of its 10-year support model. It means that SQL Server 2012 will no ...

For many of us, Web applications have become as much a part of our daily life as the meals we eat. (Some of us even eat while we work on Web apps.) Unfortunately, just as these applications are ...

Microsoft is working to resolve a known issue that causes its Defender for Endpoint enterprise endpoint security platform to incorrectly tag SQL Server software as end-of-life. According to a service ...

It's not 2008 anymore. Joey details the ins and outs of upgrading these aging Microsoft servers, including licensing changes, support options and potential pitfalls. It was a simpler time. A decade ...

Evan Doty is a senior field solution architect at CDW focused on hybrid cloud and Microsoft Azure. His areas of expertise include LAN and WAN network design and implementation, Windows system ...

A year from now, Microsoft will stop supporting SQL Server 2005 entirely, so the push is on to migrate customers to newer editions or to Azure Earlier this week, Microsoft reminded SQL Server 2005 ...

Microsoft Defender bug mislabels SQL Server versions as unsupported software Fix rolling out to reverse code change behind inaccurate end-of-life tagging Recent Defender issues highlight ongoing ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

OK, I’ll admit it. I’m not a DBA, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t overseen databases and their performance. I was (and probably still am) the guy who installed a Microsoft SQL database by hitting Next ...