For years now there's been a constant war between Microsoft supporters and Oracle supporters. Oracle has these features, SQL Server has these features, etc. But that's not really where the real ...

Once I establish that I’m talking about Oracle and SQL Server, I should be able to short it to SQL without getting spammed by people who have to have everything spelled out for them every time.

SQL stands for Structured Query Language. It’s a standard language for accessing and manipulating databases. MySQL is a database management system, like SQL Server, Oracle, Informix, Postgres ...

Both Oracle and SQL Server have very well-established communities. While they are different, they are also similar in many ways. All DBAs worry about the performance and security of the data and the ...

Ahead of Microsoft Build (and a possible SQL Server announcement), let's break down what we know and speculate about what we don't.

It’s Not Just About Performance And to match the high reliability and availability of those legacy databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, and DB2, Google has a 99.99 percent uptime guarantee on the ...

The Foglight Performance Investigator can help by offering rich monitoring coverage for Oracle along with services for SQL Server. SQL PI is a performance investigator that can support all database ...

Amazon takes its RDS out of beta, offers Oracle and SQL Server hosting To fend off Google's Cloud SQL, RDS adds multi-zone replication, 99.95% uptime.