Many customers choose to run their Microsoft SQL Server workloads on Amazon RDS for SQL Server to take advantage of its fully-managed services, high performance, and straight forward homogeneous ...

Microsoft's newest version of its database may cost you more if you deploy it on machines with more than four physical cores in each processor. That's one of the findings of the independent analysis ...

Who knew that there would be so many different ways that cloud service providers could charge for services? You were expecting to pay for compute and storage resources, sure. And it’s not really ...

In a survey of 420 IT manager, 66 percent said they consolidate and virtualize for savings, while 56 percent said they do it for improved business continuity or disaster recovery, according to CDW ...

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 ...

Many IT developers have built complex and lengthy PL/SQL scripts to perform critical data processing tasks as a result of underperforming ETL tools. However, as business requirements change and data ...