Become familiar with the minimal configuration startup option in SQL Server. See when and how to use it, and learn about how it limits functionality. When you start an instance of [!INCLUDEssNoVersion ...

Your SQL Server database is slowly grinding to a halt, your DBA is on vacation, and you don’t know where to start. This is when you break out the SQL Server First Responder Kit. This open source ...

description: Learn which programs and menus you can start SQL Server Profiler from and which connection contexts, templates, and filters are used with trace output.

Here's how Microsoft's support article expressed the matter: If you are running the Standard, Web, or Express edition of SQL Server, and you are using some new features that are unlocked only when you ...

Microsoft announced that developers can get help with building early, real-world projects with the next version of SQL Server, code named "Denali," through the Metro Early Adoption Program. Denali, ...

A separate SQL Server project supporting data warehouse-type applications, code-named "Madison," will appear in about the same time frame as Kilimanjaro, according to a Microsoft executive.

All testing will be done in secret, according to the original TechNet post. When is SQL Server Katmai due to ship? Originally, it was believed Katmai would be a 2007 release.