The European Commission today cleared Oracle's $7.4 billion agreement to acquire Sun Microsystems, paving the way for the two companies to close the deal.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/21/2010
Microsoft on Tuesday said SQL Server 2008 R2, the next version of its database, will be generally available in May.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/19/2010
At the inaugural meeting of the New York Technology Council, representatives from Google and Microsoft debated their views on how data will be stored and shared in the future.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/15/2010
A free toolkit helps database users migrate from MySQL to Microsoft's SQL Server database on-premise or in the cloud.
Still rooted to traditional dev models? Learning the skills and processes to span on-premises and cloud scenarios is fundamental for Visual Studio developers in 2010.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 01/01/2010
Microsoft has decided to drop development of OracleClient from its ADO.NET roadmap; while the provider remains available, use of it should be avoided in new applications accessing Oracle data sources.
- By Jonathan Bruce
- 12/22/2009
IBM on Monday said it has acquired Guardium, a leading supplier of real-time database application monitoring software.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/01/2009
In November, Microsoft released the feature-complete preview of SQL Server 2008 R2, the first major upgrade of its flagship database platform in nearly two years.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/01/2009
Microsoft's second release of ADO.NET Entity Framework 4 could bring object-relational mapping to more developers, but exactly how many remains to be seen.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/01/2009
In conjunction with Microsoft’s launch announcement of Windows Azure at this week’s Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, Embarcadero Technologies released an Azure-related database administration tool.
Microsoft Technical Fellow Dave Campbell details the Dallas data application. Could it emerge as the first killer app for the cloud?
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/17/2009
The November CTP is "feature complete," but developers will still have to wait for the PowerPivot-enabled business intelligence with Excel and SharePoint.
Microsoft on Tuesday said it will release the feature-complete preview of SQL Server 2008 R2, the first major upgrade of its flagship database platform in nearly two years.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/03/2009
After the much-delayed release of SQL Server 2005 finally came to pass at the end of its namesake year, Microsoft made a promise to release a new version of SQL Server every two to three years, from that point on.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 11/01/2009
A year after the first technical previews of Azure, Microsoft is launching a less-ambitious platform with forklift revisions based on developer feedback.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 11/01/2009