xSQL Software's RSS Reporter for SQL Server Makes Job Monitoring Easy
xSQL Software releases an innovative new tool for SQL Server database administrators, the RSS Reporter for SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2000. No more cluttering your mailbox with hundreds of SQL Server notifications, no more digging through those emails to get the information you need, no more missed important notifications… You can now, in minutes, generate standard RSS feeds that contain all the information you need for monitoring SQL Server jobs running on multiple servers - clean, simple, and standard.

DiscountASP.NET Launches Free Microsoft IIS 7.0 Beta Hosting
DiscountASP.NET, an ASP.NET and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 hosting leader, announces the launch of free Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 beta hosting available for all DiscountASP.NET customers.

MS SQL Server Versions
The latest version of SQL Server is Microsoft SQL Server 2005, this was released on 7th November 2005, at the time of writing this article I do not know of many organisations that are utilising SQL Server 2005 in a production environment but many organisations that utilise Microsoft SQL Server as a database solution have SQL Server 2005 setup in a test environment and have plans to migrate their production environments to this latest version in the future.

Idera Opens Australian Office to Serve Rapidly Growing Asia-Pacific Market
Located in Melbourne, office will service SQL Server customers locally.

Idera Improves SQL Server Database Performance with Solution for Automated Defragmentation: SQL Defrag Manager Automatically Finds and Fixes Fragme
Idera, a leading provider of management and administration solutions for Microsoft SQL Server environments, today announced the availability of SQL defrag manager 1.2. The first and only product of its kind, SQL defrag manager continuously analyzes SQL Server fragmentation levels, pinpoints fragmentation hot spots, and intelligently defragments SQL Server tables and indexes automatically or on demand - providing improved and more consistent SQL Server database performance and response times.