Who knew that there would be so many different ways that cloud service providers could charge for services? You were expecting to pay for compute and storage resources, sure. And it’s not really ...

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AWS announced that Amazon Relation Database Service (Amazon RDS) is offering 4 new capabilities to help customers optimize their costs as well as improve efficiency and scalability for their Amazon ...

Microsoft Corp. strengthened its hand in the database market Thursday by releasing the first 64-bit version of SQL Server. The product should help Microsoft address a broader segment of the database ...

OK, while I'm really bad about approving comments (mostly because the platform makes it so painful), I do want to answer a few of them here real quick. First and foremost because this is bothering me.

Microsoft's newest version of its database may cost you more if you deploy it on machines with more than four physical cores in each processor. That's one of the findings of the independent analysis ...

Microsoft only just officially released SQL Server 2019 at its Ignite conference in Orlando, Fla., but it announced some key changes to licensing a little bit earlier. Don't worry -- they're all ...

Oracle Corp. on Monday released the first major upgrade to SQL Developer, its free visual database development tool, with one key theme being the ability to browse non-Oracle databases. SQL Developer ...

Oracle released on Tuesday an application server aimed at midsize companies, part of the company's drive to spur sales of its server software. At the Oracle OpenWorld customer conference in London, ...

Microsoft only just officially released SQL Server 2019 at its Ignite conference in Orlando, Fla., but it announced some key changes to licensing a little bit earlier. Don't worry -- they're all ...