Comparisons between MySQL and SQL Server “are misleading, since Microsoft has a much richer and more complete platform,” a Microsoft spokesperson said in an e-mailed statement.

SQL stands for Structured Query Language. It’s a standard language for accessing and manipulating databases. MySQL is a database management system, like SQL Server, Oracle, Informix, Postgres ...

The MySQL migration tool is part of the Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) toolkit.According to a recent post on Microsoft's Data Platform Insider blog: "A new addition to the SSMA ...

Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services, or SSIS, allows you to extract data from databases, including MySQL, load the data into a Microsoft SQL Server database and transform the data into a ...

Microsoft released SQL Server 2012 earlier this year, and its database is one of Microsoft’s fastest-growing businesses. SQL Server only runs on Windows, while – under Sun Microsystems – Microsoft had ...

A quick, step-by-step guide to setting up, configuring, and managing a MySQL database server on Windows, Linux, and macOS. Long a staple of open source computing, MySQL serves as the database back ...

By using a cursor, SQL Server can iterate both new and old ad ‘reading from table’. Similarly, the declaration ‘FOR EACH ROW’ is the channel through which MySQL uses an implicit loop. All three ...

Oracle is making a fresh run at Microsoft's SQL Server, claiming on Tuesday that its open-source MySQL database offers up to 90 percent cost savings over SQL ...