Microsoft is working on SQL Server 2008, the long-awaited new release of the Redmond, Wash., company's database system. The second community technology preview (CTP) of the software is now available, ...

Oracle Corp. hopes to take on Microsoft Corp. for a larger share of the market for databases sold on the Windows operating system, a senior Oracle executive said yesterday. While Oracle’s database is ...

You say application database server, but not what application, # of users, or expected load. Optimally for a production performance SQL server you would have 2 drives in raid 1 for OS, 2 drives in ...

The PostgreSQL Development Group on Wednesday is releasing PostgreSQL 8.0, an upgrade to the open source object-relational database featuring native support for Windows. The Windows functionality ...