In the age of big data, efficiently managing relational databases, particularly SQL Server, may be the single most important issue facing a growing number of CIOs and data center managers. Throughout ...

I'm doing some web development contract work this summer, and my scenario/task is this. The environment is broken up into Production / Staging / Testing / Local Dev All environments are running MS SQL ...

Idera, a provider of Microsoft SQL Server management and administration tools, announced SQL virtual database 1.3, the latest release for this solution that enables backup files to look and act just ...

HOUSTON, TX--(Marketwire - Dec 11, 2012) - Idera, a leading provider of application and server management solutions, today announced the availability of two new free tools that monitor the health of ...

If your business uses Microsoft SQL Server, you may want to have multiple instances of servers on multiple computers for synchronization or backup purposes. Microsoft SQL Manager lets you accomplish ...

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Microsoft already has a limited version of the SQL Server database online, but it plans to have a full version up before Windows Azure's release Microsoft, which last year announced plans to bring a ...

Microsoft announced a roadmap shift, indicating that it will focus on supporting Open Database Connectivity for SQL Server application programming interfaces in the near future. The shift is of ...

Relational SQL databases, which have been around since the 1980s, historically ran on mainframes or single servers—that’s all we had. If you wanted the database to handle more data and run faster, you ...

At the Ignite conference today, Microsoft made a series of announcements about Azure databases. It announced a brand-new Azure database called HorizonDB, which is a fully managed PostgreSQL database ...