Sean Gallagher, who began his career as an IT project manager for the Navy, has spent two decades as a technology writer and reviewer. Microsoft’s SQL Server 2012, the latest version of its SQL Server ...

SQL Server 2012 is a large, complex product that represents Microsoft's vision of where data is headed. If that vision were to be summed up in one word, that word would be: big. To meet the challenges ...

While SQL Server 2008 was little more than a service-pack level upgrade, the 2012 version of Microsoft’s database has a boatload of new features and delivers solid performance improvements.