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Oracle Management Software Supplier Adds Security Patching for MySQL and SQL Server

patchVantage, an Oracle management software supplier, has added patching functionality for MySQL, and Microsoft’s SQL Server on Linux. According patchVantage, since Oracle’s RDBMS, MySQL, Microsoft’s ...
Ars Technica

Mysql 5: 'openquery()' (MS SQL Server) like functionality?

I am trying obtain some data from a Cache database into a Mysql database using Cache's SQL Gateway.<BR><BR>Getting the data out of Cache is easy, but I am not sure about the easiest way to get it into ...
MCPmag

Microsoft Offers New SQL Server Migration Tools

Microsoft today updated some of its free tools to help users move to Microsoft SQL Server and released a new Oracle MySQL migration tool. The new SQL Server Migration Assistant for MySQL v1.0 tool, ...
Ars Technica

Amazon takes its RDS out of beta, offers Oracle and SQL Server hosting

It has been over three years since Amazon Web Services introduced its Relational Database Service (RDS). But until now, RDS has ostensibly been in “beta”—available only to a subset of customers. This ...