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 ...

As a heavy user of other RDBMS data platforms, I have long appreciated the extra effort that Microsoft put into their data management and administration tool, the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).

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 ...