Many small businesses use databases to hold customer data ... SQL, including MySQL, SQLite and others, but they use many of the same core commands. Microsoft's version of SQL runs on the SQL ...

SQL Server, Microsoft’s flagship relational database product ... On Linux, after all, products like MySQL, MariaDB and PostgreSQL are also vying for a very similar slice of the market.

has awarded Microsoft’s SQL server its database management software (DBMS) of the year award for 2016. Although Oracle maintained its lead in the overall DBMS market, followed by MySQL ...

Amazon RDS also supports a service Amazon calls Aurora, which is a MySQL- and Postgres-compatible database of Amazon's own fashioning. Microsoft ... of instance-level SQL Server compatibility ...

and Latin America use Microsoft's SQL Server, compared to 46 percent using MySQL. Oracle database technology? It's used, but not nearly as extensively. MySQL gives Oracle a club with which to beat ...