SQL stands for Structured Query Language. It’s a standard language for accessing and manipulating databases. MySQL is a database management system, like SQL Server, Oracle, Informix, Postgres, etc.

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 ...

Oracle is determined to keep MySQL if it acquires Sun, but the reason likely has little to do with open source and everything to do with Microsoft. Oracle doesn't compete with open source. Not really.

在微软自上而下敞开胸怀，拥抱开源的进程中，微软云 Azure 始终是个急先锋。而由微软中国的工程师团队主导研发、并率先在中国市场投入商用的 MySQL Database on Azure 云端数据库服务，则是微软云从本土客户的需求出发，全面支持开源创新的典型。 作为开源世界 ...

Oracle threw its own punches at Red Hat and Microsoft today by detailing expanding integration of its MySQL with Windows and Oracle's heftier databases in the 2011-12 timeframe. In a webcast today, ...