While Microsoft's big Azure database news today is the launch of Cosmos DB, its new "planet-scale" distributed database service, there is a good chance that many developers will be more interested ...

Microsoft is now offering support for MySQL, which should give pause to every open-source company that expects to make money through support subscriptions.

Azure SQL Database Managed Instance, which provides customers with a Microsoft-managed version of SQL Server running in the cloud, is now available in public preview.

Oracle isn't going to give up on its acquisition of MySQL because MySQL is a strategic wedge for it against Microsoft.

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 Server along with blazing ...

The Microsoft SQL Database admin created an "image" type to replace my MySQL "blob" type. It worked fine.<BR><BR>Peter, I tried storing RTF in a text field a while back.

MySQL developers have used Microsoft source code in version 4.1 of the open-source database, which is due for final release in two weeks. Microsoft made the code for its Windows Installer XML (WiX ...

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 ...

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 Server along with blazing performance ...