Lingua franca of databases’ falls to its lowest ranking ever in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity.

A new open source startup is setting out to help software development teams glean deeper insights from their codebases, using SQL to query all the data sources they use in the software building ...

Microsoft revealed the official names Monday of the next major upgrades to its Visual Studio software development tools platform and its SQL Server database, which will be called, simply, Visual ...

SQL Server for Linux won't officially ship until mid-2017, but there's already a preview for corporations that want a peek. ... Microsoft's SQL database software now runs on Linux.

Long Names and Case Sensitivity in the SQL Procedure and Pass-Through Facility Beginning in Version 7 of SAS software, SAS variable names and member names can be up to 32 characters long. Column names ...

Whether users actually want to run SQL Server on Linux is another question entirely. Oracle's flagship database software is still far more popular than Microsoft's, and open source alternatives ...

Microsoft is well-known for three things, their hardware (such as the Microsoft Surface series), their operating systems and their software.

Microsoft's SQL Server business has hit the $5 billion mark in terms of annual revenue and is growing like gangbusters, according to CEO Satya Nadella. But licensing experts believe this stunning ...