On average, the annual cost for administration is $2,847 per year per database for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and $10,206 per year per database for Oracle 10g.

Most enterprises that opt for either SQL Server or Oracle do it for reasons other than software costs, writes eWEEK.com Database Center Editor Lisa Vaas.

Exec Judson Althoff detailed a SQL Server 2016/Oracle comparison involving a scenario where various capabilities built into SQL Server 2016 were matched up against the Oracle database. "When we ...

The move, described in an unpublicized pricing document (PDF) on Oracle's Web site, took effect February 16, just days before Microsoft announced an update to its rival SQL Server 2005 software ...

Data professionals might have been expecting a launch date for SQL Server 2016 at the Data Driven event held today in New York City, but what they got was a recap of the flagship database system's ...

Within a couple weeks of Oracle's announcement, I noticed Microsoft making noise about how their database offering was not increasing in price. That seemed like a good strategy to me, since SQL Server ...

Both approaches can synchronize SQL Server data between your primary and secondary servers—synchronously or asynchronously—and both work closely with the HA solution to facilitate failover in an ...