Microsoft strengthened its hand in the database market Thursday by releasing the first 64-bit version of SQL Server. The product should help Microsoft address a broader segment of the database market, ...

Microsoft released SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 2 this week. The SP2 release goes by the "RTM" (release to manufacturing) nomenclature, according to Microsoft's announcement. That's an old-fashioned ...

SQL Server isn't on the kind of update schedule that characterizes Visual Studio these days, when it's unusual for two months to go by without some sort of release. But one version is getting a new ...

Custom proximity search is a new feature introduced in SQL Server 2012 Full-Text Search. It's facilitated using the NEAR operator, allowing it to be used in the CONTAINS predicate or CONTAINSTABLE ...