Microsoft is offering free licenses for its database software to current Oracle customers in its latest effort to wrestle market share from its competitor. Companies considering switching can apply to ...

Microsoft Corp. today is introducing updates across its database portfolio as part of general availability announcements for Azure DocumentDB and SQL Server 2025.

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Microsoft has released four sets of security patches for its products, fixing a critical flaw in Microsoft Jet Database Engine software that had been used in online attacks. Security experts say that ...

Microsoft products may not be alone in contributing to the spread of the SQL Slammer worm, security researchers said Wednesday. Other companies also make products containing the Microsoft database ...

To make productive use of the ever-growing volumes of data, businesses and organizations need the right database systems to manage all that data and make it available for transactional and analytical ...

Microsoft is making its newest database software tougher to crack. The company plans to announce on Tuesday that its SQL Server 2005 database--developed under the code-name Yukon--will include new ...

The long wait for SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 has ended for Microsoft developers. Products go to manufacturing. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge ...

Hackers broke into Microsoft’s secret, internal bug-tracking database and stole information related to vulnerabilities that were exploited in later attacks. But the software developer never disclosed ...