Almost a quarter of the councils that responded to the FoI request said they were still running Windows Server 2000 or 2003, and 38% said they were running Microsoft SQL Server 2005.

Microsoft’s support for SQL Server 2005 ends in April and just like with Server 2003, you should take the end-of-life announcements from Microsoft seriously.

The only way to get extended support for 2008 versions of Windows and SQL Server is in the cloud. Here's why you should be thinking about 2012 migrations now as well.

With just a short amount of time to go until Microsoft officially kills off SQL Server 2005—i.e., no more hotfixes or security updates—the installed base of 800,000 to more than 2 million ...

With end of support looming for Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008, Microsoft has a new option for those users to keep getting security updates: By moving workloads to Azure.

If you want to install Oracle SQL Developer on your Windows computer for free, check if you meet the requirements and then go through the instructions mentioned here.

If you cannot Install SQL Server on a Windows 11/10 computer, check if SQL Server is compatible and execute these solutions to resolve the issue.