When Microsoft released the Windows 7 beta for public download in January, the resulting demand overwhelmed its servers, delaying the launch by a day and giving the software giant’s capacity ...

After chatting with my friend and fellow Microsoft MVP Allen White about Windows Server Core on a recent SQLCruise.com excursion, I realized that this is a technology I should be evangelizing more. I ...

If WSUS clients have stopped reporting to WSUS Servers and are unable to fetch updates, you will have to take these steps to ...

Onetime Windows server database leader Oracle Corp. saw its revenues drop by 1 percent on the platform to finish with 34 percent market share.

To do it via PowerShell, you'll need your Azure SQL database server name. To get this, you can use the Get-AzureSqlDatabaseServer cmdlet. You can see here that I have a single server called ...

What’s new in Windows Server Azure Edition: Everything you need to know Your email has been sent The special Azure image for Windows Server gets new features regularly. Here are the latest ...

When a database server jumps in time, it wreaks havoc, and the backup won’t run, either, as long as the server has such a huge offset in time. For our customers, this is crucial.” ...

Windows servers and SQL Server 2000 now power some of the world's biggest production databases, according to an annual survey from data management analysts at Winter Corp.

SQL Server 2008/R2 and Windows Server 2008/R2 Extended Security Updates (ESUs) will also reach their end support on July 12, 2022, and January 10, 2023, respectively.

Microsoft provides three more years of Windows Server 2012 Extended Security Updates (ESUs) until October 2026, allowing administrators more time to upgrade or migrate to Azure.

News. Windows Still the Hot Platform for New Databases. By Scott Bekker; 05/07/2002; Gartner released research this week showing that the strongest growth in new database software license revenues in ...