In this benchmark, Microsoft is doing quite well with SQL Server 2008 x64 leading the way running on an IBM System x3950 M2 64-way server under Windows Server 2008. In fact, Microsoft has the top ...

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. It didn't work very well ...

Several weeks after record TPC-C benchmarks for its upcoming SQL Server 2000 database were cancelled, Microsoft announces new test results that are slightly better than the earlier ones.

Hackers target poorly secured Microsoft SQL and MySQL database servers to deploy the Gh0stCringe remote access trojans on vulnerable devices. Gh0stCringe, aka CirenegRAT, is a variant of Gh0st RAT ...

That’s because Microsoft also today launched a new migration service that allows developers to take their third-party and SQL Server databases and move them to Azure SQL Database.

Microsoft's vaunted benchmarks for SQL Server 2000 were removed from the books for being noncompliant earlier this month. But the company is striking back with a vengeance, publishing four new ...

Microsoft Resubmits New TPC-C Benchmarks. Microsoft gets better ... The company achieved the record in February with Windows 2000 Advanced Server and pre-release code of SQL Server 2000 on a ...

SQL Server is an expensive part of your IT stack -- SQL Server Enterprise Edition costs roughly $7,000 per CPU core (plus the likely cost of 23 percent for Software Assurance).

Benchmark Study Highlights The 2024 McKnight Consulting Group benchmark compared EDB Postgres AI with Oracle, SQL Server, MongoDB, and MySQL in self-hosted environments.

SQL Server 2005 got its first independently audited public scalability test this week when Hewlett-Packard posted results of a run of the database against the Transaction Processing Performance ...

In a recent benchmark, Microsoft claims that SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines can be up to 57% faster and cost up to 54% less than running a similar workload on AWS EC2.