Next week, MySQL plans to outline its plugin architecture that allows VARs and developers to use specialized storage and transaction engines suited for their workloads. At the MySQL’s fourth ...

For instance, if you copy a SQL 2000 database to SQL Server 2008, the new copy is an upgrade to the new internal format but retains a Compatibility Level of “80” which represents SQL 2000 aka SQL 8.0.

BOSTON (Reuters) - Oracle Corp. launched a marketing effort on Wednesday to promote an upgrade to its database software, its latest effort to maintain a market lead against IBM and Microsoft Corp.

This "incremental" upgrade will sport updated Automatic Storage Management (ASM) perks including automated backup to tape and enhanced storage virtualization, said Andy Mendelsohn, senior vice ...