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With its January 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle gained the MySQL open source database management software (DBMS) platform for enterprise IT environments. MySQL is designed to let users ...

A relational database management system (RDBMS) like Microsoft SQL Server 2012 allows you to develop, maintain, and administer databases with a variety of administrative tools.

2-tier architecture is a client-server architecture where the server is versatile, meaning it can directly respond to all of the client's resource requests. In 3-tier architecture, however, the server ...

Ahead of Microsoft Build (and a possible SQL Server announcement), let's break down what we know and speculate about what we don't.

What Is Important to a Database Developer?. You don't have to be a professional database administrator to manage and manipulate information efficiently -- anyone can create a spreadsheet in Excel ...