Oddly, SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2, which were released about two years apart, are both losing support on the same day. It might be expected that SQL Server 2008 R2 would still have ...

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 ...

That time has come for customers using SQL Server 2008 and 2008R2. For those customers, Microsoft has laid out a path forward with many lanes, some of them leading upward to the cloud.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Native Client Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Native Client (SQL Native Client) is a single dynamic-link library (DLL) containing both the SQL OLE DB provider and SQL ODBC driver.

SQL Server 2008 SP3 Express, a free edition of Microsoft's database management system, can be downloaded here. Microsoft also released a Feature Pack for SQL Server 2008 SP3.

Microsoft has released SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack August 2008 the same day when SQL Server 2008 was released. Feature Pack is a collection of stand-alone packages, including Analysis Services, Comma ...

SQL Server 2008 has some great new features. One of them is the new auditing capability. Now we can audit at the server, database and table level according to specifications provided by the DBA.

But for some users, this could be a feasible option. Extended support for SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 is set to end in July 2019, and Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 in January 2020.

SQL Server 2008 R2 will be available as part of Microsoft’s Small Business Server package. That version has the same features as the standard edition, but is limited to 75 users.

SQL Server 2008 provides a minimal set of tools — cursors and WHILE loops — to accomplish this task. I’ll take a closer look at each option and explain why it’s difficult to pinpoint which ...