LOS ANGELES — Microsoft at its Professional Developers Conference 2003 here on Tuesday will discuss intentions to add an XML data type to its SQL Server database, with the Yukon release of the product ...

SQL is a widely-used programming language for computer databases in business. Frequently, software developers need to combine different kinds of data, such as integer and character fields, into a ...

When it comes to improving the performance of database systems, there are nearly as many approaches as there are DBA (database administrator) teams. That might sound acceptable at first glance. But, ...

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) ...

So I have this page. The page is taking form-submitted data and saving it to a SQL Server database via stored procedure.<br><br>Just one problem - every time I ...

Building on the DATETIMEFROMPARTS, DATETIME2FROMPARTS offers similar functionality, but yields more precise DateTime2 data type, containing fractions of a second to a specified precision. Naturally, ...

A conference being held in Denver this week by the Professional Association for SQL Server user group will provide a forum for the biggest public unveiling to date of Microsoft Corp.’s SQL Server 2008 ...

Last month I told you about the overall set of features which Microsoft plans to release when SQL Server 2014 (SQL2014) is released to manufacturing. Microsoft has three major feature sets that they ...

Despite the plentiful information in Books Online and on the official “SQL Server 2000 Security” document Microsoft offers online, setting up a truly secure SQL Server remains a difficult task. In ...