On August 12, Microsoft made available the first version of a tool designed to help customers migrate from MySQL to SQL Server and/or SQL Azure.

Azure SQL Database Managed Instance, which provides customers with a Microsoft-managed version of SQL Server running in the cloud, is now available in public preview.

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 Server along with blazing performance ...

Hackers target poorly secured Microsoft SQL and MySQL database servers to deploy the Gh0stCringe remote access trojans on vulnerable devices.

Microsoft cloud to SQL Server: let's have an open (source) relationship Microsoft adds MySQL, PostgreSQL to Azure's managed relational database platform.

Oracle is determined to keep MySQL if it acquires Sun, but the reason likely has little to do with open source and everything to do with Microsoft. Oracle doesn't compete with open source.

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 ...

The Microsoft SQL Database admin created an "image" type to replace my MySQL "blob" type. It worked fine.<BR><BR>Peter, I tried storing RTF in a text field a while back.

Microsoft has announced the first CTP of a SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) for MySQL v1.0, which automates aspects of the migration process to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 & 2008 including SQL ...

A free toolkit helps database users migrate from MySQL to Microsoft's SQL Server database on-premise or in the cloud.