Microsoft announced today that SQL Server 2008 R2 is released to manufacturing just 20 months after SQL Server 2008, the platform on which it is built. SQL Server 2008 R2 (codenamed Kilimanjaro) ...

Database replication is a valuable tool that allows companies availability and scalability with their data. To help support customers in this area, Dell is releasing version 8.6 of SharePlex, its ...

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I would like the user to be able to click a button on the web page that will run a SQL query (canned report) and export the result data to an Excel spreadsheet. The data does not need to display on ...

While SQL Server 2008 was little more than a service-pack level upgrade, the 2012 version of Microsoft’s database has a boatload of new features and delivers solid performance improvements.

SQL Server, Microsoft’s flagship relational database product, is now available on Linux in the form of an early private preview, with a full launch planned for mid-2017. Until now, SQL Server was ...

Man, I <I>really</I> do not want to do this by hand.<P>To put it simply:<P>I have a bunch of SQL Server 7 scripts.<BR>I need them to be a bunch of Oracle 8.1.6 scripts instead.<BR>Is there any ...

In the original proposal for the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: A generic tool could perhaps be made to allow any database which uses a commercial DBMS to be displayed as a hypertext view. We ...

When it comes to improving the performance of database systems, there are nearly as many approaches as there are DBA (database administrator) teams. That might sound acceptable at first glance. But, ...