With the official release of Microsoft's latest database offering, let's see what was improved and what still needs some work ...

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 ...

Despite its steep licensing costs, SQL Server continues to prove its worth over open-source alternatives in some key areas. SQL Server is an expensive part of your IT stack -- SQL Server Enterprise ...

My colleague, senior editor, Kathleen Richards was at MIX08 in Las Vegas two weeks ago. Suffice to say she received a brain dump on Silverlight and a number of other big announcements there. When she ...

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The successful migration from purely private to public and hybrid cloud arrangements has substantially increased the level of confidence IT administrators have in the cloud. And among the top cloud ...