Microsoft today announced that the final service pack for SQL Server 2012 is now available for download.

Microsoft rolled out a description of its SQL Server 2012 licensing model on Thursday. Microsoft's up-and-coming relational database management system (formerly code-named "Denali") promises self ...

The final SQL Server 2012 service pack is now available for download. The latest official release for the half-decade-old version of Microsoft's database management system includes a rollup of all ...

SQL Server 2012 SP2 contains updates based on customer feedback since the last service pack and since the release of Cumulative Update 9. Microsoft added some supportability and functionality fixes to ...

Microsoft is adding a brand-new business-intelligence SKU and core-based licensing to its coming SQL Server 2012 database offering due next year.

SQL Server’s data mining add-ins for Microsoft Office let Excel and Visio users access the reporting and analytics features of SQL Server itself, allowing them to take advantage of server-side ...

Click the "Download" button to download the entire Feature Pack, or scroll to the bottom half of the page and locate the "Microsoft SQL Server OLE DB Provider" links.

While SQL Server 2008 was little more than a service-pack level upgrade, the 2012 version of Microsoft's database has a boatload of new features and delivers solid performance improvements.

Microsoft breaks vow to never license by core and will now charge for server cores much like they were processors. Here's the details.