It appears that the long wait for SQL Server 2005—the successor to Microsoft's renowned SQL Server 2000—will be well worth it. SQL 2005 promises to be a polished, powerful product with significant new ...

Microsoft signaled the end of support today for its SQL Server 2005 product. The 10-year-old server has fallen out of Microsoft's "extended support" product lifecycle phase. SQL Server 2005 will no ...

We've known for some time that SQL Server 2005 was reaching the end of its extended support period and Microsoft has been busy encouraging users to move to newer software such as SQL Server 2014.

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna and two ...

The third service pack for SQL Server 2005 went live on December 15, 2008. Microsoft indicated that the release was designed to upgrade all service levels of SQL Server 2005 to Service Pack 3, as the ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Nov. 7, 2005 — Microsoft customers and partners gathered today to show their support for the launch of Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 and Visual Studio® 2005 and the upcoming release of ...

With just a short amount of time to go until Microsoft officially kills off SQL Server 2005—i.e., no more hotfixes or security updates—the installed base of 800,000 to more than 2 million servers ...

— Today at the 2004 Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) Community Summit in Orlando, Fla., Microsoft Corp. extended its comprehensive data platform by demonstrating new business ...

The company on Monday announced the general availability of SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2, which contains a number of key enhancements to the software, including full Windows Vista and Office 2007 ...

A year from now, Microsoft will stop supporting SQL Server 2005 entirely, so the push is on to migrate customers to newer editions or to Azure Earlier this week, Microsoft reminded SQL Server 2005 ...

Microsoft will end security support for SQL Server 2005 in April 2016, and companies must prepare to upgrade. According to Tiffany Wissner, senior director of data platform marketing at Microsoft, ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. After April 12, those running SQL Server 2005 database software will no longer get ...