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TechEd 2003 attendees witnessed a rare admission during Microsoft Senior Vice President Paul Flessner's keynote address: Microsoft is delaying the next version of SQL Server (code-named Yukon) from the first half of 2004 to the second half of 2004...
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 3a (SP3a) to address specific issues discovered in SQL Server 2000 since its ship date. Because SQL Server service packs are cumulative, SP3a includes all fixes from SP1, SP2, and SP3. However...
Predicting whether a server with one fast processor would be faster than a server with two slower processors is impossible without first examining the server's workload. Last week, I noted that in many cases, the cost difference between a dual...
One bit of good news that came out of Paul Flessner's TechEd 2003 address is that SQL Server 2000 Developer Edition's price will drop from $499 to just $49. The company told me it wanted to make SQL Server more accessible to developers, but I...
Microsoft is now accepting nominations for the public beta of SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services, scheduled for release August 2003. The company officially announced the product at TechEd in Dallas this week, saying that Reporting Services will be...