SQL Server 2008 R2, which ships this month, allows end users to tap into the powerful business intelligence features of SQL Server via tight integration with popular Microsoft applications like Excel.

I'm down on SQL Server Management Studio right now. I basically just spent a day trying to swap out the evaluation version of SQL Server 2008 R2 with the Express version, and SSMS just wouldn't ...

The built in "script data" tooling in SQL Management Studio 2008 R2 is broken for me because of spurious "cyclical foreign keys" errors. Plus the "generate scripts" itself has gone from clunky but ...