With the new version of its database due out by mid-2010, Microsoft is increasing its retail prices. It also is adding two new high-end editions of SQL Server 2008 R2 to its line-up. Microsoft ...

senior director of data platform marketing. The oldest eligible products — Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 — have the most pressing retirement dates, January 2020 ...

“Always Encrypted” lets customers encrypt data all the way from the client to the server, while storing the keys on the client; SQL Server never sees them. It is transparent to applications, though it ...