has awarded Microsoft’s SQL server its database management software (DBMS) of the year award for 2016. Although Oracle maintained its lead in the overall DBMS market, followed by MySQL ...

The surprise came when Microsoft SQL Server was announced as the DBMS of the year for 2016 by DB-Engines.com. For the 12 months of 2016, SQL Server experienced a steep rise in popularity as a search ...

SQL databases have constraints on data types and consistency. NoSQL does away with them for the sake of speed, flexibility, and scale. One of the most fundamental choices to make when developing ...

In addition to the data type, Microsoft plans to add native JSON indexing across both Azure SQL and SQL Server, which should also help the performance of those JSON queries. There are a lot of ...