SQL Server 2008 Express edition with Tools has finally been released (It was launched on August 11th, but only today are the management tools available).  As I've been building web servers today, I've put together this comprehensive guide to setting up your website to work with SQL Server 2008.... [More]

Yesterday I managed to take down my development web server.  I changed one of my customer's web sites from an SQL database to Microsoft Access, and as I am running 64 bit Windows Server 2008 and there is no 64-bit OleDB driver for Access, I had to change the Advanced Settings in the site's app... [More]