This article will tell you the difference between MySQL and SQL Server in brief. SQL stands for Structured Query Language. MySQL is a database management system, like SQL Server, Oracle, Informix ...

So the real difference between these two platforms is community. Microsoft has gone to great lengths to build a community and really support it. And Oracle is still doing business the old way.

Two years later, MySQL was acquired for $1bn by Sun Microsystems, which in turn was bought by Oracle for $7.4bn in 2010. By then, some of the database's original creators had already left to ...