Microsoft signaled the end of support today for its SQL Server 2005 product. The 10-year-old server has fallen out of Microsoft's "extended support" product lifecycle phase. SQL Server 2005 will no ...

Microsoft today noted that organizations running SQL Server 2005 have less than a year before the product's lifecycle support will come to an end. SQL Server 2005 will exit its "extended support" ...

MS SQL Server has been around for a while now and is quite popular in the enterprise database area. The current version, SQL Server 2000, was released about four years back and continues to be used in ...

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 servers ...

One thing that was not immediately evident in the noise about the recent launch of Microsoft's SQL Server 2005 was the fact that the next-gen database isn't generally available yet. Microsoft says SQL ...

Microsoft will end security support for SQL Server 2005 in April 2016, and companies must prepare to upgrade. According to Tiffany Wissner, senior director of data platform marketing at Microsoft, ...

A year from now, Microsoft will stop supporting SQL Server 2005 entirely, so the push is on to migrate customers to newer editions or to Azure Earlier this week, Microsoft reminded SQL Server 2005 ...

If you still have SQL Server 2005 anywhere in your firm, you now have four months to get a migration program going before Microsoft pulls the plug on support for the aging database. April 12 will be ...

Brien M. Posey is a freelance technical writer who has contributed to dozens of books and is a six-time Microsoft MVP award winner. SQL Server 2005 reaches its end-of-life milestone on April 12, the ...

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433051 – SQL Server Integration Services service failed to start after installing SP1 The service startup delay occurs because .NET verifies signature of the files and it needs to consult certificate ...

This article discusses the breaking changes in OLE DB Driver for SQL Server since [!INCLUDEssNoVersion] Native Client in [!INCLUDEssVersion2005]. When you upgrade from Microsoft Data Access Components ...