Microsoft has rather quietly introduced a new version of SQL Express, created specifically for developers. The new version, SQL Express LocalDB, provides the same T-SQL, programming surface and client ...

Having recently set up an old desktop as a dev machine in order to avoid trashing my main computer with evaluation software (don't get me started), I decided it was time to try out Visual Studio 11 ...

Microsoft has just made available for download a new flavor of its Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Express, to help professionals better manage their databases. Released as a powerful data management system ...

The server collation acts as the default collation for all system databases that are installed with the instance of SQL Server, and also any newly created user databases. The server collation is ...