The “tom-toms beating for SQL” (as Michael Stonebraker put it) were coming not only from Oracle ... the syntax can get a little hairy at first. Fortunately, there are database development ...

Other additions include SQL domains and annotations. “Database metadata can now be stored directly alongside the data with the new annotation mechanism inside the Oracle Database,” Oracle said ...

For SQL, there are new features like data types ... There are some behavior changes starting with Oracle Database 23ai. For example, after installing the software-only Oracle Database, the Oracle home ...

So for Microsoft and Oracle, it's a war of database features, functionality, and claims of ease-of-use and cost-effective performance. A critical enhancement in SQL Server 2008 is its ability to ...

Migrating from Oracle: Oracle owns Java and uses it extensively across its product lines, including in stored procedures within Oracle Database ... logic are now down within SQL Server. This feature ...

Because the CONNECT statement is omitted, an implicit connection, that uses the default database, is made to Oracle Rdb. proc sql; execute (grant update, insert on orders to [qa,testuser]) by rdb; ...