OK, while I'm really bad about approving comments (mostly because the platform makes it so painful), I do want to answer a few of them here real quick. First and foremost because this is bothering me.

Both Oracle and SQL Server have very well-established communities. While they are different, they are also similar in many ways. All DBAs worry about the performance and security of the data and the ...

Migrating from Oracle: Oracle owns Java and uses it extensively across its product lines, including in stored procedures within Oracle Database. Now that SQL Server also has Java within its SQL code, ...