In May 2009, Microsoft announced that a CTP of SQL Server 2008 R2 (formerly codenamed Kilimanjaro) would be available in the second half of 2009, and today it has arrived. The final version is ...

I had the pleasure to spend some time with my old friend at Microsoft, Mark Souza, while speaking at the SQL Saturday event in Dublin, Ireland. Now keep in mind that Mark and I have known each other ...

Yesterday everyone was scrambling to get their hands on the public release of the Release Candidate builds of Windows 7 RC and/or Windows Server 2008 R2. However, it seems that the same day Microsoft ...

Microsoft announced this week that it is having problems with ISO releases of SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 2. Service Pack 2 for SQL Server 2012 was released last month. However, there's a problem ...