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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft is taking its database rivalry into Oracle’s home territory - the Unix family of operating systems. The company has announced that the 2016 release of SQL Server, traditionally a Windows ...

Analysts say Redmond still has billions of reasons to keep backing its flagship DBMS, even as Azure, Postgres, and AI hog the ...

Ahead of Microsoft Build (and a possible SQL Server announcement), let's break down what we know and speculate about what we don't. One topic that has come up in several conversations with customers ...

Microsoft says it’s building artificial intelligence capabilities directly into SQL Server 2017, aiming to simplify and speed up machine-learning processes that would normally take place outside the ...

According to Jeff Jones, IBM’s director of data server strategy, the new DB2 is no ordinary upgrade. Five years in development, DB2 9.1 is one of the most significant releases in the product’s history ...