Oracle is making a fresh run at Microsoft’s SQL Server, claiming on Tuesday that its open-source MySQL database offers up to 90 percent cost savings over SQL Server along with blazing ...

Microsoft SQL Server vs. MySQL: Differences While the two platforms are similar in the interface and basic relational database standards, they are two very different programs and operate differently.

However MySQL’s stored code-objects are close to ANSI standards, but again, they don’t have the breadth and depth of T-SQL, Microsoft, and Sybase’s proprietary extension to SQL.

On August 12, Microsoft made available the first version of a tool designed to help customers migrate from MySQL to SQL Server and/or SQL Azure.

I have a DB server running SQL 2008. I need to on a regular basis export a single table and then copy that table into a MySQL DB running on our remote web host.

MySQL developers have used Microsoft source code in version 4.1 of the open-source database, which is due for final release in two weeks. Microsoft made the code for its Windows Installer XML (WiX ...

I am trying obtain some data from a Cache database into a Mysql database using Cache's SQL Gateway.Getting the data out of Cache is easy, but I am not sure about the easiest way to get it into ...

Microsoft fired another salvo in the database wars by announcing a new toolkit to help users migrate their databases from MySQL to SQL Server -- or SQL Azure, the new cloud offering. In a Data ...

While Microsoft obviously already offers Azure SQL as an option for developers who need a relational database, that’s not exactly a drop-in replacement for MySQL, for example, and developers ...