Microsoft fired another salvo in the database wars by announcing a new toolkit to help users migrate their databases from MySQL to SQL Server -- or SQL Azure, the new cloud offering. In a Data ...

SQL Server, Microsoft’s flagship relational database ... On Linux, after all, products like MySQL, MariaDB and PostgreSQL are also vying for a very similar slice of the market.

and Latin America use Microsoft's SQL Server, compared to 46 percent using MySQL. Oracle database technology? It's used, but not nearly as extensively. MySQL gives Oracle a club with which to beat ...