Microsoft capped off a week of high-profile announcements related to SQL Server with an aggressive migration offer aimed at Oracle database customers.

Microsoft laid out the case for enterprises to ditch Oracle's database system for its own at this week's Data Driven conference in New York City. Exec Judson Althoff detailed a SQL Server 2016 ...

SQL Server is significantly cheaper than Oracle's Linux-friendly databases, but it's traditionally been limited to data centers running on Microsoft's Windows Server tech.

Some see Microsoft and Oracle's recent announcement of a cloud interoperability partnership as an enterprise-shaping, disruptive move. Here's why.

Specifically, this means Oracle database users who move to SQL Server will get free licenses (well, almost free, because they do still have to subscribe to Microsoft’s Software Assurance service).

He added that SQL Server 2000 includes new technology that enables scalability clusters and said Microsoft customers were just beginning to test and run real-world applications on that technology.

Company says licensing is weak spot in Oracle's armory, and it hopes to use it to woo database customers to SQL Server 2008.

Microsoft's flagship database software used to be a runner-up to Oracle but has gained favor among IT buyers in recent years. Rohan Kumar, the Microsoft executive in charge of SQL Server, said ...

Microsoft and Oracle are set to reveal details of a new partnership on Monday, one of a "startling series" of announcements Oracle CEO Larry Ellison promised next week around the Oracle Database 12c.

With Oracle 10g, expected to be released by the end of the year, Oracle is focusing on lowering the cost of database maintenance to combat Microsoft.

The partnership between Microsoft and Oracle becomes industry's first real multi-cloud deal bringing together two mainstream public cloud environments - Azure and OCI. It is also an indicator of ...

Oracle Database@Azure gives customers of both companies a low-latency option to commingle their data with Microsoft’s applications and infrastructure using the existing Azure portal, software ...