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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. [ ...

The CEOs of the world's two largest software companies met earlier this month, but the details of their conversation are being kept secret. Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 30 years for ...

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 ...

Oracle Corp. plans to release a free version of its database by the end of the year in a move to compete more effectively at the low end of the market. Oracle released a beta version of the product, ...