Customers now can download a fully-functional trial version for evaluation, and Microsoft is also making the software available to the Microsoft Developer Network and TechNet subscribers. With SQL ...

Microsoft is offering free licenses for its database software to current Oracle customers in its latest effort to wrestle market share from its competitor. Companies considering switching can apply to ...

Microsoft has just released the Community Technology Preview (CTP) version of its latest Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) driver for SQL Server 2005. The CTP version of the upcoming 1.1 release is ...

Your Microsoft SQL Server databases keep growing, but your storage hardware - and budget - aren't. You need a powerful, easy to use backup and recovery solution for SQL Server that gets the maximum, ...

Microsoft's latest database platform arrived on schedule on Wednesday. SQL Server 2016, which has been in different forms of closed and public testing over the last year, makes huge improvements and ...

As part of the SQL Server 2016 launch event, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced a commercial database promotion that provides customers with free licenses if you are running a competitor’s platform ...

Microsoft is starting to turn the crank on its SQL Server 2016 launch machine by going after Oracle database users with a migration offer. On March 10, the day the company is holding a two-hour ...