SP2 is available now to keep various editions of SQL Server 2008 R2 up to date. The editions supported by SP2 range from the lofty Parallel Computing edition to the no-cost Express edition.

Microsoft released SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 this week and announced that it's available for download.

SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 is available for download. The new service pack fixes some minor issues, and not much has apparently changed since Microsoft first offered a test preview of SP2 back ...

SQL Server 2008 R2 customers better get their downloading fingers ready as Service Pack 2 is now available. There is not much new to report here, and the service pack is mainly a monster roll of ...

In this article, we will discuss an edition of SQL Server 2008 R2 Express with Service Pack 2 that is free, feature-rich, and perfect for building desktop, web, and small server applications, or for ...

First, the team tweaked the SQL Server 2008 R2 Utility, which provides an overall view of system resources by modeling entities. Microsoft describes the SQL Server Utility in greater detail here. Next ...

SQL Server 2008 SP2 CTP can be downloaded here, and the Express Edition version is available here. Microsoft recommended deploying this test version only in non-production environments. The CTP ...

Microsoft has announced that its Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 has reached the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) phase and detailed the changes contained within the ...

In-place upgrades to SQL Server 2014 are supported from SQL Server 2012 SP1, 2008 R2 SP2, 2008 SP3, and SQL Server 2005, but are not necessarily the best option.