Microsoft laid out the case for enterprises to ditch Oracle's database system for its own at this week's Data Driven conference in New York City. Exec Judson Althoff detailed a SQL Server 2016/Oracle ...

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 ...

Data professionals might have been expecting a launch date for SQL Server 2016 at the Data Driven event held today in New York City, but what they got was a recap of the flagship database system's ...

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This article is a revised version of the original published January 3, 2005. See Editor’s Note for details. Two major factors drive database backups these days: compliance and disk space. Some ...

Recently, VMware delivered a unique technology event as a component of an even more unique program. What made this event so unusual was the particular group of technologists attending and the approach ...

Quest Software has introduced LiteSpeed Engine for Oracle, bringing the high-performance backup compression and encryption it has offered in the SQL Server market, to the Oracle platform. According to ...

For the past several weeks I’ve been doing nothing but complaining about vendors so I thought I’d take a break and write something about SQL Server for a change. So to that end today I’m gonna talk ...