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.

I’ve been working with Microsoft business intelligence products since their official inclusion in the product line back in the days of SQL Server 7, around 1998. From that time forward, the business ...

SQL Server 2022: Here’s what you need to know Your email has been sent Three decades on, SQL Server is still a database workhorse that powers both an internal line of business applications and ...

Wednesday Microsoft said SQL Server 2008 R2 had been released to manufacturing, the last step in Microsoft's product development process when a new product's code is locked down and the software is ...

Philip Howard of Bloor Research compares performance capabilities of the leading business intelligence platforms. Companies studied in this comparison are IBM® (Cognos, DB2 with BLU Acceleration), SAP ...

Revenues from the company's Server and Tools division rose 18 percent in the fourth quarter from the same period a year ago, driven by a 35 percent increase in sales of SQL Server, the software maker ...