Service packs include updates and may include system administration tools, drivers, and additional components, which are conveniently bundled for easy downloading.

In this article, Alexander Chigrik explains some problems that you can have whenyou work with full-text search. He also tells you how you can resolve these problems.

By Wylie Wong – The next version of SQL Server, code-named “Yukon,” will include a long list of new security-related features when it debuts in 2003, said James Hamilton, SQL Server’s design architect. He said that Microsoft’s database team spent more than a month auditing the software code for secu

SQLXML 3.0 Service Pack 1 (SP1) addresses specific issues that were discovered in SQLXML 3.0 since its ship date. SP1 is available for download in nine languages.

By Paul Krill – MICROSOFT is marching on with its mission of displacing Unix databases with its own SQL Server platform, and is readying both a 64-bit database and a next-generation database, dubbed Yukon, that focuses on data warehousing and minimizing down time.

Find answers to your questions about licensing requirements for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Notification Services.

By Itzik Ben-Gan – This set-based T-SQL query might not solve all your financial problems, but it can help you compute balances and track index growth.

Alexander Chigrik decodes some SQL Server 2000 Undocumented System Tables.

By Wylie Wong – The next version of SQL Server, code-named "Yukon," will include a long list of new security-related features when it debuts in 2003, said James Hamilton, SQL Server’s design architect. He said that Microsoft’s database team spent more than a month auditing the software code for secu

by Brad M. McGehee – Learn how to upgrade your current SQL Server 7.0 cluster to a SQL Server 2000 cluster.