When revamping his site, PalmGear.com founder Kenny West decided to migrate the site's database from Microsoft's SQL Server to enterprise-strength Oracle 8i.

The Oracle SQL Developer tool can connect to databases other than Oracle, including MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server and DB2. The SQL development environment helps the programmer perform basic ...

Both Oracle and SQL Server have very well-established communities. While they are different, they are also similar in many ways. All DBAs worry about the performance and security of the data and the ...