ZDNet

Oracle to SQL Server: Migration traps

You must watch out for many subtle and not-so-subtle traps when translating Oracle queries to SQL Server. Just as T-SQL is the language engine of SQL Server, PLSQL is that of Oracle. Both these ...
dbta

Replicating Oracle Data to SQL Server for Analytics and Archiving

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 ...
ZDNet

Microsoft: SQL Server licensing to win Oracle customers

The forthcoming launch of SQL Server 2008 will see Microsoft focus its considerable resources on the issue of licensing, to win customers from rivals Oracle and IBM. "Our challenge, now (that) we have ...
Ars Technica

Updating Oracle 9i data from SQL 2K

We have Great Plains running on MSSQL 2K. The Powers That Be have decided it would be a good thing to have an automated system in place to do automatic updates of corresponding tables in our main ...
MCPmag

Microsoft Shifting Future SQL Server APIs from OLE DB Back to ODBC

Microsoft announced a roadmap shift, indicating that it will focus on supporting Open Database Connectivity for SQL Server application programming interfaces in the near future. The shift is of ...