One of the most useful features in Microsoft's System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) product is its reporting engine. Even though there is nothing overly difficult about its installation process, ...

Note – This book abbreviates SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services as SSRS and SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services as SSRS2K5. New features available in SSRS and not in SSRS2K5 are labeled with “New in ...

Microsoft on Friday posted Service Pack 4 for SQL Server 2000, the first service pack update for the company's flagship database server since early 2003. The major new feature of the service pack is ...

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On the back-end I installed two database servers running SQL Server. The idea was to use NLB on the front-end for load balancing and Database Mirroring on the back-end for data protection and failover ...

SQL Server isn't on the kind of update schedule that characterizes Visual Studio these days, when it's unusual for two months to go by without some sort of release. But one version is getting a new ...

The company on Monday announced the general availability of SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2, which contains a number of key enhancements to the software, including full Windows Vista and Office 2007 ...