Microsoft is working on SQL Server 2008, the long-awaited new release of the Redmond, Wash., company's database system. The second community technology preview (CTP) of the software is now available, ...

Oracle has kept its lead as the No. 1 database software maker, but rival Microsoft is gaining ground in the highly competitive market, a new study shows. Oracle widened its lead to 33.8 percent of the ...

Microsoft and Oracle expand their partnership to provide Oracle Database@Azure, providing direct access to Oracle database services running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, deployed in Microsoft Azure ...

Some Oracle customers using the Windows operating system will have to wait another two weeks to receive a critical software update to their database software, thanks to a glitch that came up in ...

Hoping to reignite sales of its flagship database software, Oracle on Thursday released version 9i and introduced a new pricing plan. Oracle, which ranks first in database market share, has spent the ...

The Database Administrator’s role is to design, support, monitor, maintain, and performance tune production databases while ensuring high levels of data availability. This individual is also ...

Oracle is hoping that new security, testing, and management features offered in Oracle Database 11g will lead users to migrate to the major release of the vendor’s database sooner rather than later. [ ...

Oracle Corp. appears to have accidentally released details about an unpatched security vulnerability in its database software, including sample code that could be used to exploit the problem. Details ...