Excel offers no such constraint. If someone is determined to enter bad data, they can simply paste values over a validated ...

The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, is announcing that DocumentDB—a fast-growing open source document database from Microsoft—has joined the ...

Will the software industry's wave of open-source databases spill onto Microsoft's turf? Perhaps. The software giant is considering making the source code for its SQL Server database available to ...

Oracle and Microsoft on Wednesday said that they were jointly launching a new service, dubbed Oracle Database Service for Azure, that will allow Azure customers direct access to Oracle databases ...

Microsoft products may not be alone in contributing to the spread of the SQL Slammer worm, security researchers said Wednesday. Other companies also make products containing the Microsoft database ...

Microsoft released long-awaited updates to its database and programming tools to developers on Thursday and revealed a plan to lure new database customers. The company said that its SQL Server 2005 ...

The deal, unveiled at Microsoft’s annual management summit in San Diego, will enable the software giant to enter the SAM market faster than if it developed a solution in-house, said Kirill ...