Microsoft's new SQL Server 2012 licensing can come with some costly pitfalls, according to a licensing expert. The details were reviewed by Paul DeGroot, a founder of Pica Communications and a senior ...

As Microsoft phases out older Exchange Server versions, IT leaders are facing new decisions about how to stay compliant and cost-efficient. Understanding the current licensing landscape for Windows ...

Brien M. Posey is a freelance technical writer who has contributed to dozens of books and is a six-time Microsoft MVP award winner. SQL Server 2005 reaches its end-of-life milestone on April 12, the ...

Microsoft rolled out a description of its SQL Server 2012 licensing model on Thursday. Microsoft's up-and-coming relational database management system (formerly code-named "Denali") promises ...

So, my client and their subcontractor(s) have found themselves in a bit of a pickle, as no one bothered to spec or price a DB for a software implementation, so now I've been handed the bag. The client ...

In the complex and frustrating world of virtualization licensing, Microsoft has had its ups and downs and caused its fair share of IT aggravation. Licensing Microsoft products in a physical world has ...

SQL Server 2008 has some great new features. One of them is the new auditing capability. Now we can audit at the server, database and table level according to specifications provided by the DBA. We ...

As a heavy user of other RDBMS data platforms, I have long appreciated the extra effort that Microsoft put into their data management and administration tool, the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).