Microsoft's database releases from 2008 and 2010 reach end of extended support. In response, Redmond says, that for many customers, the time for cloud migration has arrived.

Database Mail, a new addition to the SQL Server 2005 database engine, is as simple to use as it is useful. Destined to be the replacement for SQL Mail, Database Mail uses a Simple Mail Transfer ...

Microsoft is releasing SQL Server 2008 to manufacturing after several delays. Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 will help Microsoft compete with Oracle and its 11g database, and IBM and its DB2 9.5 ...

SQL Server has supported VLDBs (very large databases) for some time now. Back in the SQL Server 2000 days, I recall hearing multi-terabyte databases were unusual but doable. Now, they are commonplace, ...

Microsoft also has an Extended Support product page here. Azure SQL Database Of course, Microsoft is touting its Azure SQL Database service as the workload migration goal for SQL Server 2008/R2 users.

I want to enable notifications for SQL Agent for my backup jobs.I configured database mail and that works, it sent me a test message.However, when I go to tell the SQL Agent to use it, it sees ...

In less than a year, Microsoft will end support for SQL Server 2008, meaning no more updates and no more support, but perhaps more problems on the security and compliance fronts for organizations that ...