Microsoft announced today that SQL Server 2008 R2 is released to manufacturing just 20 months after SQL Server 2008, the platform on which it is built. SQL Server 2008 R2 (codenamed Kilimanjaro) ...

SQL Server 2008 R2, formerly code-named Kilimanjaro, will enable organizations to build business intelligence solutions that include complex event processing, taking Microsoft into the high end of the ...

"Does SSDT for Visual Studio 2012 support BI project templates?" asked James V. Serra in a TechNet forum last September. Some six months later, the answer was yes: "Hi James, the download to add the ...

SQL Server 2008 R2, which ships this month, allows end users to tap into the powerful business intelligence features of SQL Server via tight integration with popular Microsoft applications like Excel.

Developers can now take a first hand look at Microsoft's next major upgrade of its flagship database platform. The company this week released its first Community Technical Preview (CTP) of SQL Server ...

An opportunity to speak with Sabrena McBride, Senior Product Manager for SQL Server, provided a lot of insight into what's new in R2. Some of the highlights: Among other things, SQL Server 2008 R2 is ...

— Today at the 2004 Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) Community Summit in Orlando, Fla., Microsoft Corp. extended its comprehensive data platform by demonstrating new business ...

Microsoft complements its relational database engine, SQL Server, with several add-on services that manage different aspects of enterprise business intelligence and information processing such as data ...

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — July 5, 2005 — Today at Tech•Ed 2005 Europe, Microsoft Corp. continued to disclose details surrounding the launch of Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005, Visual Studio® 2005 and ...

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 ...

In this second delve into data cleanliness (read the first, How clean is your data?, here), we’ll test-drive the data profiling tool provided with Microsoft SQL Server. Other profiling tools have ...