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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In less than a year, Microsoft will end support for SQL Server 2008, meaning no more updates and no more support, but perhaps more problems on the security and compliance fronts for organizations that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...