You must watch out for many subtle and not-so-subtle traps when translating Oracle queries to SQL Server. Just as T-SQL is the language engine of SQL Server, PLSQL is that of Oracle. Both these ...

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.

The Microsoft OLE DB Provider is an SQL tool that enables developers to write code that provides an application with ADO access to an SQL database. The OLE DB Provider is not installed by default when ...

Microsoft Corp. strengthened its hand in the database market Thursday by releasing the first 64-bit version of SQL Server. The product should help Microsoft address a broader segment of the database ...

The forthcoming launch of SQL Server 2008 will see Microsoft focus its considerable resources on the issue of licensing, to win customers from rivals Oracle and IBM. Speaking to ZDNet.co.uk, Microsoft ...