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 ...

Are there any special adjustments that need to be made (on the SQL server side, or the database/query side) to accomodate for communications over a slow(er) WAN link? We have had slow performance ...

SQL Server on Linux simply doesn't support this feature, and if the client is on Linux, "currently there is no way to open a file over SMB and pass the Extended Attributes".

In most organizations, client/server applications are developed using one of these tools in addition to a SQL* database server that supports stored procedures. (A stored procedure is written in a ...