Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

Microsoft this week released its long-awaited Beta 2 for SQL Server 2005, the next major release of Microsoft's flagship database that was formerly code-named "Yukon." While the beta includes ...

REDMOND, Wash. — April 19, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 Service Pack 1 (SP1), the product’s first major milestone since the launch of SQL ...

Microsoft ratcheted up its product support for SQL Server 2005 by releasing Service Pack 3 (SP3) on Monday, along with SP3 Cumulative Update 1. Microsoft ratcheted up its product support for SQL ...

On Monday, Microsoft announced availability of the much-anticipated beta two version of Visual Studio 2005 and the .Net Compact Framework 2.0, as well as a community technology preview of SQL Server ...

REDMOND, Wash., July 26, 2004 — Microsoft Corp. today announced it would add support for the AMD Opteron (TM) with Direct Connect Architecture in Microsoft SQL Server (TM) 2005, the next generation of ...

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 signaled the end of support today for its SQL Server 2005 product. The 10-year-old server has fallen out of Microsoft's "extended support" product lifecycle phase. SQL Server 2005 will no ...

Microsoft’s support for SQL Server 2005 ends in April and just like with Server 2003, you should take the end-of-life announcements from Microsoft seriously. End-of-support is headache for CIOs, ...

Microsoft will only support SQL Server 2005 running Service Pack 2 on its upcoming Vista and Longhorn server operating systems, a move that an analyst said isn’t surprising, but shouldn’t have a ...

Microsoft began a wide beta testing program of its forthcoming SQL Server 2005 database on Monday, a much anticipated--and delayed--product central to the company's server software line. The second ...

Microsoft released the first service pack for SQL Server 2005 on Wednesday, fixing dozens of bugs and paving the way for more businesses to upgrade to its latest database software. The update comes ...