Microsoft continues to make positive strides in the world of open source. The company once considered open source software to be an anathema, but now it’s common for Microsoft to pull software ...

Announcing SQL Server 2025—empowering customers to develop modern AI applications securely using their data, complete with ...

A public preview of SQL Server 2025 adds new vector capabilities already found in rival databases, along with JSON support ...

In SQL Server, the initial dialect for stored procedures (or stored procs) was Transact-SQL, aka T-SQL; in Oracle, it was PL-SQL. Both databases have added additional languages for stored ...

Microsoft has open sourced a .NET 5 C# Language Extension for SQL Server, allowing developers to work with relational data in the company's flagship programming language. The new tool joins similar ...

Microsoft has open sourced the Java language extension it added to SQL Server 2019 last year. Language extensions are used in SQL Server to allow users to execute code externally for queries. The ...

SQL is the de facto standard programming language used by many of the most ... PHP has strong ties to databases through its use of server-side scripting to power websites that utilize database ...

With SQL Server 2022, there was a shift back to a ... Given that this is "just" a language feature (meaning the code driving the feature is likely entirely contained within the database engine ...

SQL Server Express Edition ... The target market for Express or MSDE is the embedded market. The various language Express editions will cost in the "tens of dollars," Montgomery said.

Couchbase yesterday announced that N1QL, unveiled in February, is a primary component of its new Couchbase Server 4.0, just released in beta. "N1QL is based on SQL," Couchbase said. "It has familiar ...