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.

Procedure to move Microsoft SQL Server database to a new location, painlessly, if you’re running low on disk space, added a new drive array, or just curious.

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.

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 ...

SQL Server 2016 Standard: Microsoft is aiming this version as a lighter offering of its database management system, with support for 24 cores and basic security enhancements. SQL Server 2016 Express: ...

Database mirroring is a form of data replication, and this feature was replaced by the much more capable Always On Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012. Mirroring is currently in maintenance mode, ...

The company touted that its SQL Server 2016 Enterprise edition comes packed with every add on available out of the box and is 11.7 times less expensive than a comparable database package from Oracle.

In SQL Server, the initial dialect for stored procedures (or stored procs) was Transact-SQL, aka T-SQL; in Oracle, it was PL-SQL. Both databases have added additional languages for stored ...

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 ...