A bit of background: I just started work for this company. We're not exactly a Fortune 500 company, but we're not small either. We're planning on investing in a database server, first to power the ...

Data professionals might have been expecting a launch date for SQL Server 2016 at the Data Driven event held today in New York City, but what they got was a recap of the flagship database system's ...

I'm trying to transfer some data between identical tables in SQL server and Oracle (from SQL Server to Oracle), using the MS-SQL Data Transfer wizard, but its default conversion routines are treating ...

Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison displayed some of his famous swagger following the release of the company’s earnings report on Tuesday. Ellison, who is also Oracle’s chief technology officer, said he ...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, left, with Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison, announcing their recent partnership. (Microsoft Photo / Dan DeLong) “All partnerships are tactical. There is no such ...

Microsoft and Oracle announced a lot of piece parts with their June 24 partnership around Azure and Oracle databases and middleware. Here's your Cliffs Notes version: Oracle apps are now certified to ...

It's certainly been done before. Over and over. Microsoft takes on an established incumbent, one that often has a prodigious market lead. It comes up with a sometimes-weak, first competitive response.

Last week, Microsoft and Oracle announced an agreement to work together more closely and to make sure their products are more compatible with each other. It's about time. Each company understandably ...

After years of ridiculing the idea of cloud computing, Oracle is officially "all in" as of last week's Oracle Open World show. At the confab, CEO Larry Ellison took the wraps off Oracle's public cloud ...

Recently, VMware delivered a unique technology event as a component of an even more unique program. What made this event so unusual was the particular group of technologists attending and the approach ...