Your Donation Will Be Matched 2-to-1! Can You Chip In? Show Please don't scroll past this—the Internet Archive is growing rapidly, and we need your help. As an independent nonprofit, we build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, sell user information, or run ads. Instead, we're powered by donations averaging $25.51. We'd be deeply grateful if you'd join the one in a thousand users that support us financially. Right now, we have a 2-to-1 Matching Gift Campaign, tripling the impact of every donation. We understand that not everyone can donate right now, but if you can afford to contribute, we promise it will be put to good use. Access to knowledge is more important than ever—so if you find all these bits and bytes useful, please pitch in. Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 is a free development and IT program update package that enables you to upgrade your SQL Server. Developed by Microsoft, this service pack contains cumulative updates and works for various SQL Server 2008 R2 editions you may
have. Take note, however, that SQL Server 2008 R2 is no longer being supported and developed but can still be run on x64 systems. Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system developed by Microsoft that doubles as a database server. Its primary function is to store and retrieve data as requested by
other software applications—whether they run on the same PC or from another PC across the network. There are over a dozen editions and versions of SQL Server that are aimed at different audiences and workloads. One of these is SQL Server 2008 R2. SQL Server 2008 R2 added certain features to SQL Server 2008, such as a master data management system and the PowerPivot for Excel’s service. It has a total of three Service Packs and the first of these was released in 2011, containing a multitude of vast improvements to the database. While it can only apply its updates and not Service Pack 2 or 3’s own, these updates are a great addition to the database’s features. For one, Dynamic Management Views has been extended to improve supportabilities over troubleshooting long-running queries. Querying performance has also been improved. There are new Data-tier Application (DAC) Framework as well as DAC upgrade wizard. Plus, you can control your disk space for the PowerPivot feature. However, while these are pretty handy, support for SQL Server 2008 R2 has stopped so any issues with SQL Server® 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 won’t be fixed easily. No longer supportedAll in all, Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 can be considered an essential update if you still happen to have SQL Server 2008 R2 running in your system. It’s not bundled with the other service packs but it still provides some great utilities. However, the lack of support for its base program means that you’re going to have a hard time fixing any issues you find in its updates. PROS
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 Video: These are the top business tech stories from Microsoft's Ignite Microsoft is offering users on Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 a way to keep getting security updates for free after the official support period ends. Read also: Here's how you can still get a free Windows 10 upgrade There's a catch: They have to bring their workloads to the Azure cloud. But for some users, this could be a feasible option. Extended support for SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 is set to end in July 2019, and Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 in January 2020. After that point, Microsoft will no longer provide security fixes for these products to users, unless they pay for custom support contracts -- or if they agree to move workloads on these products to Azure. Microsoft announced the new move-to-Azure option today, July 12, ahead of next week's Microsoft Inspire partner conference, as the company expects the move to be a potential opportunity for its Cloud Solution Providers. Here's how the new extended support option will work. Customers who agree to migrate their Windows Server 2008/R2 and/or SQL Server 2008/R2 workloads to Azure will get extended security updates for free for three additional years (so, until January 2023 for Windows Server and until July 2022 for SQL Server). Customers do not have to show any kind of migration plan to Microsoft to get this deal, which is not the case if they buy custom extended support agreements that require them to show a timeline for migrating off the expiring product. Read also: Here's how you can still get a free Windows 10 upgrade - CNET Those customers who can't or won't be ready by the time Extended support ends for Windows Server 2008/R2 and SQL Server 2008/R2 still will have the option of buying custom extended security updates, which will go for 75 percent of the license cost of those products, which is consistent with what Microsoft has charged for those agreements in the past, said Corporate Vice President of Azure Julia White. Customers who opt to take the free, move-to-the-cloud option also can move their Windows Server/SQL Server workloads to Azure Stack, Microsoft's on-premises version of Azure, if they'd prefer to go that route. Once the three year free support period ends, customers will have a few possible routes to take to continue to stay supported. They can upgrade to a more recent version of Windows Server and/or SQL Server. They could leave the workloads they put in the cloud in a virtual machine and/or containerize their apps and update them from there. Read also: Windows 10: A cheat sheet - TechRepublic This new cloud-based extended support option is replacing a plan that Microsoft unveiled two years ago that was meant to provide Windows Server 2008/R2 and SQL Server 2008/R2 users with another way to gain more time before the end of support. That option, which Microsoft started rolling out last year -- Windows Server Premium Assurance and SQL Server Premium Assurance -- was crafted to add six more years of support for those products beyond the current 10. Microsoft officials said anyone who purchased Premium Assurance will be grandfathered in and given the option of moving to the new extended cloud-based support offer, as the Premium Assurance plans will be discontinued. In Memoriam: All the consumer products Microsoft has killed offWindows 10Editorial standardsRelatedIs SQL Server 2008 R2 free?SQL Server 2008 R2 Express is a free, limited-performance version of SQL Server 2008 R2. In very small deployments, it can be used to store Websense reporting data.
How to install SQL Server 2008 for free?SQL Server 2008 Installation Step By Step. Step 1: Open explorer and you'll see setup file as shown below. Right click on the setup and run it as Administrator.. Step 2: SQL Server Installation Center. ... . Step 3: Setup Support Rules. ... . Step 4: Setup Support Files. ... . Step 5: Setup Support Rules. ... . Step 6: Installation Type.. Can I use Microsoft SQL Server for free?SQL Server 2019 Express is a free edition of SQL Server, ideal for development and production for desktop, web and small server applications.
Is SQL Server free or paid?It is free – although the commercially licensed version of SQL Server is often less expensive that other leading database products anyway, you cannot get it cheaper than for zero cost.
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