Microsoft is readying a free version of SQL Server and low-cost versions of developer tools for enthusiasts and non-professional users.

Microsoft is readying a free version of SQL Server and low-cost versions of developer tools for enthusiasts and non-professional users. The company announced that later this week it will post beta ...

With the Developer Edition of SQL Server 2005, Microsoft allows customers and developers to run copies of SQL Server for development purposes without incurring a license fee.

Microsoft made available SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 to about 500,000 developers and users through its Microsoft Developer Network Web site, a company spokeswoman said.

In SQL Server 2014 Business Intelligence Edition, a SQL Server instance can use up to 128 gigabytes of memory. Additionally, this edition includes the Advanced corporate BI (Tabular BI semantic model, ...