For an overview of SQL Server features, see this article. On top of the evaluation edition, Microsoft offers a free SQL Sever 2012 Express edition for lightweight use, which can be downloaded here.

There is a specific version of SQL Server 2012 that designed just for developers called LocalDB. This LocalDB developer version is based on SQL Server 2012 Express but it has a richer feature set and ...

I have been struggling with getting SQL Server 2012 SP2 Express installed. It gets through the installer but fails at the end with the following error ...

Once I'd configured the SQL database, I configured Horizon to use the database to store View Events. To do this, I logged into my View Administrator, then clicked on the Events Configuration tab and ...

Don't need an enterprise-grade database on the cloud? Microsoft offers Azure customers a low-cost, lightweight SQL server option for testing and purposes and apps.

SQL Server Data Tools, released with SQL Server 2012 and coming with Visual Studio 11 Beta, are interesting and certainly worth a look soon, but I decided to first check out something a little simpler ...

I have a test server hosting several sites using SQL Server Express and SQL Management Studio Express. I've seen one site have an occasional issue where queries to a particular table (the ...