The company is looking at making the source code for the next version of SQL Server available under its shared-source program.

John Carroll thinks that anyone with a valid license should have access to Microsoft's SQL Server source code. Rather than a polemic against proprietary software, John makes a practical argument ...

You can use VB.NET or C# to write procedural code and create user-defined types and aggregates in SQL Server.

Microsoft formally finished the code last week on a 64-bit version of its flagship database, SQL Server 2000.

Thats in all aspects, not only in terms of what SQL Server 2000 has, but some new capabilities. For example, writing code in .Net should be the same as writing code in the T-SQL environment.

SQL Server 2005 migrations won't happen overnight, after all, even for users have already beta-tested the product. At this point, Schiff suggests, the important thing is that the SQL Server code-base ...

When it comes to Microsoft SQL Server 2008, what can you expect? SQL Server, code named Katmai, is – as its name suggests — due out later this year. Question is why should you care? Now I ...