Microsoft's latest relational database management system contains a host of new features, but are they enough to make you migrate? The wait is over. Microsoft has finally released SQL Server 2008, the ...

There are many strategies for this process that can be employed but Microsoft has given us the new MERGE statement which helps simplify things. Let’s take a look… One way of applying incremental ...

SQL Server, Microsoft's flagship operational database, has been around for over a quarter century now. That has meant successive waves of innovation for the platform, but has also made for ...

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Before this week, my knowledge of SQL was essentially limited to "SELECT blah FROM blah JOIN blah ON blah WHERE blah". Now I'm being asked to do a little more, and while I think I'm getting up to ...

SQL Server 2008, aka “Katmai,” gives SQL Server shops plenty of reasons to get excited. The best SQL Server release to date, it sports more nice new features than you can count, and the improvements ...