SQL Server may be too lucrative for Microsoft to ditch, but too legacy to love

Analysts say Redmond still has billions of reasons to keep backing its flagship DBMS, even as Azure, Postgres, and AI hog the ...

Oracle Targets AI Security With Database-First Protection Strategy

Oracle expands its AI database security strategy with new data protection, patching, and cyber resilience tools to help ...
Forbes

The 50th Anniversary Of SQL: How It Defined Our Approach To Data

Every day, businesses depend on data to operate. Customer orders, quotes for new business, conversations around products, campaigns for marketing—pretty much every business process today is based on ...
Redmond Magazine

Restoring a Database to an Older Version of SQL Server

SQL Server backups cannot be restored to older versions directly. Use Export and Import Data-Tier Application for cross-version database migration. Reconfigure permissions, logins, and connection ...
ZDNet

Microsoft's cloud-connected on-prem database: SQL Server 2022 rolls out in private preview

At Microsoft's Ignite digital event this week, the company is announcing the private preview of SQL Server 2022, the next version of its three-decades-old relational database management system (RDBMS) ...
Network World

What’s better for your big data application, SQL or NoSQL?

One of the critical decisions facing companies embarking on big data projects is which database to use, and often that decision swings between SQL and NoSQL. SQL has the impressive track record, the ...