Fabric is both a nod to customers trying to tighten their belts and also to the multi-cloud database tools such as Snowflake and Databricks that threaten Microsoft's established database franchise.

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Oracle has announced a partnership with Microsoft to bring some of its database infrastructure, including hardware and services, to Azure.

Microsoft and Oracle on Thursday announced 'Oracle Database@Azure,' a new collaborative infrastructure-as-a-service effort that lets Oracle database customers more easily tap Azure services.

Microsoft’s SQL Server 2000 database, which is set to ship within a month, suffered a double embarrassment this week. Record TPC-C benchmark numbers, which Microsoft has touted for the past five ...

Hackers broke into Microsoft's secret, internal bug-tracking database and stole information related to vulnerabilities that were exploited in later attacks. But the software developer never ...