SQL Server Magazine

New Products

Check out new and improved SQL Server-related products from SQL Sentry, Quest Software, Sentrigo, and AMB.

SQL Server Magazine Editors' Best Awards 2008

After many sleepless nights, our editors have compiled the best products of 2008 in 12 categories, including Product of the Year. Find out who earned the highest honors in our annual Editors' Best awards.

Windows IT Pro Community Choice Awards

Our readers have opinions about the best products, too, based on their experience with using products day in and day out. Here are their picks in eight categories, including Exchange Server monitoring, laptop synchronization, and disk imaging.

A Misfire in Backup Compression Shootout?

A reader disagrees with comparative review's findings.

Letters to the Editor

Idera writes in about SQL Server Magazine's April 2008 backup compression product review.

SQL Server 2000 Code for Temporal Histograms

If you're running SQL Server 2000, use the code linked to this document in place of Listing 3 and Listing 4 in "Temporal Histograms," May 2008, InstantDoc ID 98360.

New Products

Check out new and improved SQL Server-related products from LogRhythm, Embarcadero, Vertica, and Markus Gruber.

What's New in SQL Server 2008?

What's New in SQL Server 2008?

Letters to the Editor

The redesign of SQL Server Magazine is getting mixed reviews.

New Products

Check out new and improved SQL Server-related products from Acronis, Dundas, ISC, and TulaSoft.

How Can I Secure Data? Security in SQL Server 2008

Under the Hood: Performance Tuning SQL Server 2008

Protecting Your Data: Mirroring in SQL Server 2008

Letters to the Editor

Building Your Data Warehouse

Give us your feedback about these data warehousing topics, which Michelle Poolet will discuss in future Solutions by Design articles.

The Best of TechEd 2007

The sixth annual Best of TechEd Awards took place in June and highlighted outstanding products from Microsoft partners. Here are the top SQL Server-related product winners.

SQL Server Standouts

SQL Server Magazine gives you information about database-related hardware, software, and services in every issue. In our second annual Editors' Choice Awards, we honor the best of the best from all the products we've covered in the past year.

The Right Way to Calculate a Leap-Year Birthday?

A reader responds to Itzik's fifth DATETIME column by providing some code that might provide a better solution for calculating a leap-year birthday.

Industry Bytes

Our editors share insights from their conversations with AppDev Products and Pillar Data Systems.