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 ...

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 ...

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

Oracle threw its own punches at Red Hat and Microsoft today by detailing expanding integration of its MySQL with Windows and Oracle's heftier databases in the 2011-12 timeframe.In a webcast today ...

This article on SQL and NoSQL comparison will throw light on the debate on advantages and limitations on each. SQL database is a relational database. The basic quality of NoSQL is that it may not ...

MySQL is now owned by Oracle while MariaDB is managed by the MariaDB foundation. At their core is a common SQL query language that has made it easy to learn and utilize these systems.

On the other hand, Microsoft Office supports only ODBC. Similarities between ODBC and JDBC. There are many databases on the market, from enterprise systems -- such as IBM's DB2 and Microsoft's SQL ...

Oracle is determined to keep MySQL if it acquires Sun, but the reason likely has little to do with open source and everything to do with Microsoft. Oracle doesn't compete with open source. Not really.

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 ...

And there are those who don’t,” McCown writes in Oracle’s community, part 2. “So what I can gather from this is that maybe Oracle hasn’t done enough to get the word out on all of their ...