A Washington court has ruled against Microsoft in a case that could result in its customers and partners who use its SQL Server database having to pay royalties to Timeline Inc which brought the ...

A Washington court has issued a judgement against Microsoft Corp. in a case that could prove costly for certain customers and partners who use its SQL Server database, according to software vendor ...

Add extensive server hardware firepower. Upgrade database to Oracle 8i. When revamping his site, PalmGear.com founder Kenny West decided to migrate the site's database from Microsoft's SQL Server ...

I have included a sample function in Listing A for conversion from the Orace decode statement to the SQL Server case statement.

Collation describes the code page, case sensitivity, accent sensitivity, and language or alphabet in use. This SQL Server tip illustrates how you can force the use of any specific collation.