PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...

Microsoft SQL Server has come a long way since the release of Ashton-Tate/Microsoft SQL Server 1.0 on May 8, 1989, which had been announced by Ed Esber and Bill Gates on January 13, 1988 at a New York ...

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — July 5, 2005 — Today at Tech•Ed 2005 Europe, Microsoft Corp. continued to disclose details surrounding the launch of Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005, Visual Studio® 2005 and ...

Microsoft Corp. Thursday said it released to manufacturing Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005, new versions of its developer tools and database that will officially be launched on Nov. 7. The ...

On Monday, Microsoft announced availability of the much-anticipated beta two version of Visual Studio 2005 and the .Net Compact Framework 2.0, as well as a community technology preview of SQL Server ...

Microsoft plans to announce a SQL server Web services toolkit for exposing stored procedures easily in .NET applications built in Visual Studio.NET. Microsoft Data Transformation Services currently ...

With the assistance of a heavily armed and battle-ready robot, Microsoft Corp. executive Paul Flessner today promised that new versions of the company’s enterprise database, application development ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006 will officially launch the week of Nov. 7, Microsoft said Tuesday at its TechEd 2005 conference in Orlando, Fla. The Redmond, Wash.-based ...

Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools. To provide an example using real source, I created a simple Winforms ...