Now I am not talking about updating from SQL 2005 to 2008 or from Oracle 10g to 11g, these do a good job 99% of the time in taking care of themselves. I am talking about moving a database from ...

If you’re building a Microsoft .NET network and you have an Oracle database, you should migrate it to SQL Server. It is not a question of which is better but of which one is the right tool for you.

Basically, you create a link between your on-premises database instance and an Azure SQL Database by turning on the “remote data archive” feature in SQL Server 2016, providing your Azure admin ...

Last week was quite the week for Microsoft -- Visual Studio integration with Eclipse, and then the big announcement that SQL Server is coming to a Linux operating system near you shortly.

Most Common Wait Types in SQL Server and What They Mean. ASYNC_NETWORK_IO—The async_network_io wait types point to network-related issues. They are most-often caused by a client application not ...

Microsoft execs also announced that, starting today, customers who migrate from Oracle to SQL Server will get up to a 50 percent discount. ... In other database-related news, ...

Worried about defections among its database users, Oracle today unveiled free tools for migrating data and applications from competitors' systems back to Oracle applications. Topics Spotlight ...

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 ...

Microsoft today released SQL Server 2022, the latest version of its database software, which originally launched more than 33 years ago.Microsoft describes this release as the “most Azure ...

Database developers have it tough. Whether they use SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQLite, the challenges are similar. It’s too easy to write queries that perform badly, that ...