Oracle is making a fresh run at Microsoft’s SQL Server, claiming on Tuesday that its open-source MySQL database offers up to 90 percent cost savings over SQL Server along with blazing performance on ...

"It's really about choice," Rohan Kumar, Microsoft's General Manager, Database Systems, told me yesterday as he briefed me on the new offerings. Kumar further explained: "if you're a developer, you ...

Oracle isn't going to give up on its acquisition of MySQL because MySQL is a strategic wedge for it against Microsoft. Matt Asay is a veteran technology columnist who has written for CNET, ReadWrite, ...

Microsoft is releasing a public preview of the next version of its SQL Server database, which will work on Linux and Windows, both. Microsoft released a private preview of SQL Server for Linux in ...

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When in March this year Microsoft announced that it was bringing SQL Server to Linux the reaction was one of surprise, with the announcement prompting two big questions: why and how? SQL Server is one ...

When trying to install SolidWorks on a Windows computer, you may encounter an issue when the installation is trying to install Microsoft SQL Server. So, the installation works fine until it reaches ...