Man, I <I>really</I> do not want to do this by hand.<P>To put it simply:<P>I have a bunch of SQL Server 7 scripts.<BR>I need them to be a bunch of Oracle 8.1.6 scripts instead.<BR>Is there any ...

Kevin Kline, president of the Professional Association of SQL Server users (PASS) user group, was once a dyed-in-the-wool Oracle aficionado. Prior to getting his hands on Microsoft Corp.'s SQL ...

Just as T-SQL is the language engine of SQL Server, PLSQL is that of Oracle. Both these languages support several extensions to the ANSI SQL-92 standard to provide additional features.

Seek the Oracle If there is an Oracle server on your network, you’ll need to look at why it’s there—who uses it, what applications reference it, what applications are running on it, and so on.

Both Oracle and SQL Server have very well-established communities. Yet, while many of the Oracle DBAs were aware of each other’s prominence, the SQL DBAs were a much tighter family globally. This is a ...

Microsoft is hoping to convince enterprise firms to migrate from other database platforms to SQL Server 2016 by offering free licenses as part of a new promotion. The catch is that they need to be ...