Microsoft rolled out a description of its SQL Server 2012 licensing model on Thursday. Microsoft's up-and-coming relational database management system (formerly code-named "Denali") promises ...

Microsoft is changing the pricing and SKUs for the upcoming version of SQL Server, its flagship database. The changes include deletion of some old editions, and a new way of counting compute power. In ...

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 is ...

The company announced the Datacenter edition of the server, for scaling up online transaction processing, and the Parallel Data Warehouse version, which can support hundreds of terabytes of data ...

Microsoft already has a limited version of the SQL Server database online, but it plans to have a full version up before Windows Azure's release Microsoft, which last year announced plans to bring a ...

Seeing the coming storm, Microsoft customers scrambled to buy SQL licensing for their larger processors before April 1. Needless to say, March 2012 was a good month for SQL Server EA and EAP sales.