You can now run Microsoft SQL Server on Google Cloud Platform. All the major cloud providers support SQL Server, either with an IAAS or PAAS model, but the offerings have very different feature sets.

Microsoft's relational database engine has had the same licensing model since 2012. The new version released this week brings significant changes that brings SQL Server closer to Azure SQL's ...

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So I've been working quite a lot with MySQL lately and having quite a lot of fun with it. It's my first forray into working with databases. I've got a pretty good handle on SQL itself (learning ...

Oracle and SQL Server both include “built-in” stored procedures, and some of them are very handy. Unfortunately, relying on them is not advisable—you have no assurance that the database ...

Relational databases and the software that access them can be invaluable tools to businesses. Popular relational database management systems include Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, as well ...

If you spend any time at all reading IT trade journals and websites, you've no doubt heard about the NoSQL movement. In a nutshell, NoSQL databases (also called post-relational databases) are a ...

Relational database design theory is an enormous topic, ... Many database management systems such as SQL Server can generate these types of numeric keys for you when you are ready to populate your ...