It’s only been a week since Microsoft released Windows Server 2019 Insider Preview build 17709, but it’s time for a new one. Build 17713 is now available, and once again, it comes alongside of a new SDK Preview build of the same number. This build doesn’t contain any new features. The main features that...
In a little less than a year, Microsoft will end support for SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2. But businesses looking to eke a few more years out of their existing database investments, minus their server hardware expenditures, can buy more time by moving to the cloud. Takeshi Numoto, corporate vice president of Cloud...
It’s only been a week since Microsoft released Windows Server 2019 Insider Preview build 17709, but it’s time for a new one. Build 17713 is now available, and once again, it comes alongside of a new SDK Preview build of the same number. This build doesn’t contain any new features. The main features that...
Microsoft is dangling three years of additional support in front of customers running Windows Server 2008 or SQL Server 2008 if they move the servers’ workloads to Redmond’s cloud-based Azure. SQL Server 2008 — and its follow-up, SQL Server 2008 R2 — exit support July 9, 2019, or less than a year from now....
Microsoft Windows Server 2019, coming later this year, will include UTC-compliant leap second support, both for added and subtracted time. But there will be no smearing. Since 1972, leap seconds have been added to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) to compensate for divergence with mean solar time (UT1) – which slows with the Earth’s rotation...
Microsoft is dangling three years of additional support in front of customers running Windows Server 2008 or SQL Server 2008 if they move the servers’ workloads to Redmond’s cloud-based Azure. SQL Server 2008 — and its follow-up, SQL Server 2008 R2 — exit support July 9, 2019, or less than a year from now....
A fresh Windows Server 2019 Insider preview build is now available for testers to check out. The latest release moves the build number up to 17713, but there are no new features to dive into. Instead, today’s release comes alongside the launch of Windows Admin Center preview 1807. There are quite a few new...
SQL Server sample databases are useful for test and dev, but they can be difficult to parse. Use this SQL database sample overview to decide which to use and how to access them. It used to be that finding and using a sample SQL database was quite simple. In fact, the venerable Pubs database…...
News Remote Desktop Web Client Now Ready for Production Environments By Kurt Mackie 07/16/2018 The Remote Desktop Web client for Windows Server is now ready for use in production environments, having reached the “general availability” stage on Monday. The Remote Desktop Web client is available in 18 languages, according to Microsoft’s announcement. Microsoft lists...
SQL Server maintenance plans get a bad rap, but for DBAs who need a simple way to maintain databases, Microsoft’s built-in tools are a good place to start. SQL Server maintenance plans have been around since SQL Server 2000, but they’ve always been met with mixed reviews…. Continue Reading This Article Enjoy this article...
