Data management: Since DBA’s already have native SQL backup as a way to restore data, Sean McCown poses, “why is everyone like Quest and Red-Gate fighting over the SQL Server backup arena ...

Are there any special adjustments that need to be made (on the SQL server side, or the database/query side) to accomodate for communications over a slow(er) WAN link? We have had slow performance ...

* Capabilities improved over SQL 7.0’s Query Analyzer Index Analysis utility When you run Profiler, it starts up SQL Trace, then consumes events out of the queue, displaying them in computer memory.

Oracle is making a fresh run at Microsoft’s SQL Server, claiming on Tuesday that its open-source MySQL database offers up to 90 percent cost savings over SQL Server along with blazing ...

Out of the Hadoop box: SQL everywhere and AtScale AtScale has made a name for itself by providing an access layer on top of Hadoop that enables it to be used directly as a data warehouse.

Looks like we are going through the same release schedule of SQL Server 2008 as we had in 2005. A new Service Pack has been announced for the current release which seems to herald a possible ...

Microsoft could face another lawsuit from a patent portfolio company over technology within its SQL Server database. Timeline, of Seattle, said Monday it terminated a limited license agreement ...

Oracle is making a fresh run at Microsoft's SQL Server, claiming on Tuesday that its open-source MySQL database offers up to 90 percent cost savings over SQL Server along with blazing performance ...