British security researcher David Litchfield is raising an alert for a brand-new class of vulnerabilities affecting Oracle ... of PL/SQL should check for and fix instances of open cursors.

Indeed, open source developers will now find managed ... An early preview of database migration services, allowing Oracle and SQL Server applications to be more-easily shifted to Azure, is also ...

Microsoft continues to make positive strides in the world of open source ... Migrating from Oracle: Oracle owns Java and uses it extensively across its product lines, including in stored procedures ...

Microsoft has open ... Server: This extends the T-SQL (Transact-SQL) surface area to better handle use cases involving regular expressions, string handling, and Natural Language Processing support.

As a few Microsoft watchers have noted, Oracle's enterprise database is the real target of Microsoft's SQL Server on Linux play, rather than MySQL or various other open-source databases that are ...