The .NET execution engine protects SQL Server's internal buffers from executing code, and extensive enhancements to the hosting control APIs in the execution engine prohibit exceptional ...

A half-baked alternative to Transact-SQL will not make SQL Server or the development process any better and, very likely, will make things worse. As an administrator, I'm putting a lot of eggs into ...

News SQL Server 64-bit Goes Gold By Scott Bekker 04/02/2003 Microsoft formally finished the code last week on a 64-bit version of its flagship database, SQL Server 2000.

The software giant is considering making the source code for its SQL Server database available to customers, according to Tom Rizzo, director of product management in Microsoft's SQL Server unit.

This list, issued by Microsoft, has two categories: 1) “Features Not Supported in the Next Version of SQL Server”; and 2) “Features Not Supported in a Future Version of SQL Server”.

John Carroll thinks that anyone with a valid license should have access to Microsoft's SQL Server source code. Rather than a polemic against proprietary software, John makes a practical argument ...

The code, meanwhile, is based on SQL Server 2000, not the next-generation version of SQL Server code-named "Yukon." Sheryl Tullis, Microsoft's product manager for SQL Server, says the unified 64-bit ...

Additionally, Microsoft will subject SQL Server 2005 to the federal government’s Common Criteria certification from the National Security Agency. Common Criteria certification carries a more ...

Enter TST. TST is an Open source Unit Testing framework specifically meant for testing SQL Server Database Code. It helps in following ways - Has an Assertion Framework for testing Database code ...