SQL Integrity Check, the latest free tool from Idera, allows DBAs to skip the time-consuming task of writing and maintaining T-SQL scripts to find SQL Server database corruption issues. Now DBAs ...

Just copy your Web application onto any server, and it will work,” said Guthrie. “SQL CE 4 provides an easy, lightweight database option that you’ll now be able to use with ASP.Net applications.

We tested six popular free or open source relational database management systems (RDBMS): Microsoft SQL Server Express, PostgreSQL, Oracle’s MySQL, MariaDB, Apache Derby, and Firebird SQL.

In addition, Felipe Schneider, senior SQL server DBA and data engineer consultant at SAP, commented: About time. It is great to have a free tier for testing or personal projects.

Companies considering switching can apply to get Microsoft’s new SQL server software at no cost. Microsoft is even offering free training for database administrators accustomed to using Oracle.

IBM earlier this month released a free version of its own DB2 database as part of a PHP development package. And Microsoft intends to ship a free version of SQL Server 2005, called Express, next ...

Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools. To provide an example using real source, I created a simple Winforms ...