Microsoft heeft een opmerkelijke stap genomen door twee van haar programma’s gratis ter beschikking te stellen. Het gaat om Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition en SQL Server 2005 Express Edition.

Microsoft posted on April 18, 2006 the RTM version of Service Pack 1 for SQL Server 2005 Developer, Workgroup, Standard, Enterprise, and Express editions. Get the lowdown on SP-1's added features, ...

Microsoft made the “Express” announcements at the start of its European TechEd event in Amsterdam. The company was also expected to hand out beta 1 of Visual Studio 2005 and beta 2 of SQL ...

Final versions of all the Express products are due out with the final release of Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005, expected in the first half of next year.

Sinds november 2005 was Visual Studio Express Edition gratis verkrijgbaar voor de duur van een jaar, maar nu heeft Microsoft aangekondigd dat deze ontwikkelomgeving gratis beschikbaar zal blijven.

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is a Microsoft application that provides integrated management and administration of SQL Server. Nevertheless, SQL Server Express provides a user-friendly interface ...

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 ...

SQL Server 2005 Express Edition will replace Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine as the software maker's lightweight database offering of choice.