Microsoft is enabling its free SQL CE (SQL Server Compact Edition) database to work within ASP.Net Web applications, thus providing a lightweight database option for ASP.Net Web development, a ...

SQL Server Express is a free version of Microsoft’s flagship database, SQL Server. Targeted at smaller-scale and embedded applications, Microsoft SQL Server Express is a feature-rich product ...

The free SQL Server Management Studio app (SSMS) is a Microsoft database app that provides a graphical interface for SQL. It allows you to explore information stored in a database and write SQL ...

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 ...

Microsoft is trying to grab Oracle enterprise database users with a new migration offer for SQL Server 2016.

Microsoft is enabling its free SQL CE (SQL Server Compact Edition) database to work within ASP.Net Web applications, thus providing a lightweight database option for ASP.Net Web development, a ...

We tested six popular free or open source relational database management systems (RDBMS): Microsoft SQL Server Express, PostgreSQL, Oracle’s MySQL, MariaDB, Apache Derby, and Firebird SQL. We ...

For our test environment we used 64-bit Dell rack servers running Windows Server 2008 R2. It should be noted that with the exception of MS SQL Server Express, all database products we tested are ...