Microsoft has released almost a handful of free tools designed to help customers streamline the migration from MySQL, Sybase, Access and Oracle to SQL Server. The four tools are a part of the ...

Microsoft on Thursday made its new SQL Server 2008 database software available for public evaluation via a free download from the company's Web site. Users looking to try out SQL Server 2008 can ...

I'm down on SQL Server Management Studio right now. I basically just spent a day trying to swap out the evaluation version of SQL Server 2008 R2 with the Express version, and SSMS just wouldn't ...

How's this for ironic: Microsoft North America President Judson Althoff -- a former Oracle executive -- is pitching free SQL Server 2016 licenses to Oracle customers that are willing to jump Microsoft ...

“Free” is a term rarely associated with Microsoft offerings, especially at the server end of the spectrum. Exchange Server, SQL Server, SharePoint, Hyper-V — IT admins know functionality comes at a ...

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SQL Server Developer Edition can now be downloaded for free, as long as you have a Visual Studio Dev Essentials membership. The current release is SQL Server 2014 Developer Edition, which used to cost ...

Customers looking to make the jump to Microsoft’s on-premise and Cloud data platforms can access version 5.0 of the SQL Server Migration Assistant to ease the migration process from their existing ...