Depreciation of popular management tool requires a new look at Azure-based system Microsoft recently announced it will ...

Microsoft will retire SCOM SQL monitoring packs in 2027, pushing customers toward Azure Monitor and cloud billing.

It was barely a month ago that Microsoft announced the general availability of SQL Server 2017 after having released the product in preview and release candidate forms earlier in the year. Today, at ...

Change signals a shift away from legacy monitoring packs toward modern observability and Azure-based monitoring tools.

Whether you call it a "mid-course correction" or a reset, Microsoft is rethinking its "SQL Server Services in the cloud" strategy. But this week, at the MSDN Developers Conference in San Francisco, ...

Ahead of Microsoft Build (and a possible SQL Server announcement), let's break down what we know and speculate about what we don't. One topic that has come up in several conversations with customers ...

Mostly lost among the flock of announcements at Microsoft Corp.’s Mix08 Web developer conference last week was the news that Redmond is starting to test a Web database service based on its popular SQL ...

You will fail to connect to your database if the SQL Server service is not running. If you try running the SQL Server service from the Services.msc app, you will ...

I am pretty much at a loss here, this should be easy. All I am trying to do is install a simple instance of SQL 2008 R2 Express on a Windows 2K8 x64 Server. No luck. The domain name is COPPER, the ...