20-05-2012

License to kill?

For the past 10 years or so, I have been working with SQL Server in “large” enterprises, scaling from major freight companies to banking.Never have I really been too concerned with the licensing fees of SQL Server, albeit I have been giving advice on what edition to run (to limit the obvious misuse of Enterprise [...]

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SQL Server 2012 Releases April 1st

Microsoft announced back on Wed. March 7th, that SQL Server 2012 will be generally available on April 1st 2012. If you are a MSDN subscriber it is allready available for download. Should you not be a MSDN subscriber, then fear not. All thou cravings for SQL Server 2012 can be dealt with, by downloading the [...]

SQL Server 2012 RC0 released

Today Microsoft released Microsoft SQL Server 2012 RC0 (Release Candidate 0). Get it while it’s hot! Download SQL Server 2012 RC0 here!

Pass SQLRally Nordic 2011

Pass SQLRally Nordic has kicked off, with keynote by Mark Souza and Johan Åhlén. The keynote itself is like most other keynotes, basically, its a brief look at SQL Server 2012, with som flashy presentations

Denali named SQL Server 2012

At the keynote of the PASS Summit 2011, Microsoft announced that the official name for SQL Server Denali is SQL Server 2012 and that it has a release target of Q1 2012.

SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3 CTP Available

Today Microsoft released the SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3 CTP. You can go ahead and grap it from one of the following links: Edition: Enterprise, Standard, Evaluation, Developer, Workgroup – Link Edition: Express – Link Microsoft points out these key updates requested by customers, for SQL Server 2008 SP3: Upgrade: Improved the experience for [...]

Cumulative Update #2 for SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Released

On Monday the 15th, Microsoft released cumulative update 2 for SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1. Read more about it

SQL Server Code Name “Denali” CTP3 ready for download!

Yup, it’s Denali time! CTP3 just released! Get it here! Books Online for SQL Server “Denali” Microsoft SQL Server “Denali” (CTP3) – 11.0.1440.19 (X64) Jun 24 2011 17:31:09 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation Enterprise Evaluation Edition (64-bit) on Windows NT 6.1 (Build 7601: Service Pack 1)

SQL Server Service Pack 2 released

Yesterday Microsoft finally released SQL Server Service Pack 2. Get it while it’s hot! 15K partitioning Improvement. Introduced support for a maximum of 15,000 partitions in tables and indexes in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 in the Enterprise, Developer and Evaluation Editions. For details on how this support can be enabled and disabled, [...]

SQLMonkeys.com has moved server

SQLMonkeys.com and most of the Codepoint Network has moved server. I now hope that it will be more stable than the old server