The company is looking at making the source code for the next version of SQL Server available under its shared-source program.

John Carroll thinks that anyone with a valid license should have access to Microsoft's SQL Server source code. Rather than a polemic against proprietary software, John makes a practical argument ...

The .NET execution engine protects SQL Server's internal buffers from executing code, and extensive enhancements to the hosting control APIs in the execution engine prohibit exceptional ...

Microsoft formally finished the code last week on a 64-bit version of its flagship database, SQL Server 2000.

Thats in all aspects, not only in terms of what SQL Server 2000 has, but some new capabilities. For example, writing code in .Net should be the same as writing code in the T-SQL environment.

A new SQL Server 2025 feature lets organizations run vector-based semantic searches on their own data, connecting to local or ...

This list, issued by Microsoft, has two categories: 1) “Features Not Supported in the Next Version of SQL Server”; and 2) “Features Not Supported in a Future Version of SQL Server”.

SQL Server 2005 migrations won't happen overnight, after all, even for users have already beta-tested the product. At this point, Schiff suggests, the important thing is that the SQL Server code-base ...