Microsoft SQL is a relational database you can configure to run as multiple copies, or instances, on a single computer. When running a small business, keeping multiple instances of Microsoft SQL on a ...

This article shows how you can compute a function across multiple parties that do not trust each other without forcing them to share their individual inputs. This technique can be used to split ...

1. Change registry key SqlCluster in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.x\Setup\ from 1 to 0 2. Disable TCP/IP in Server Network Protocols and enabled Named Pipes from ...

Microsoft broke new ground in scalability when it launched Azure SQL Database Hyperscale. Here's what it took to make Microsoft's hyperscale vision work with the existing Azure infrastructure. When ...

Microsoft's continued focus on SQL Server 2025 highlights the lasting demand for on-premises and hybrid deployments that prioritize performance, control and flexibility for enterprise workloads. In ...

Google’s first attempt at MySQL as a service, Cloud SQL, launched in 2011, was somewhat of a disappointment from the standpoint of performance and scalability. Cloud SQL Second Generation, which was ...

Microsoft porting SQL Server to Linux is not an early April Fool's joke. The company is deadly serious about this move. Some people are asking why. After all, with MySQL, MariaDB, postgreSQL, and ...

Diane Greene, former VMware CEO, is SVP of Google’s cloud business. (Fortune Photo, via Flickr) Google is going after a core part of Microsoft’s cloud business, aiming to expand Google Cloud ...

Google Cloud SQL, which adds a MySQL database Web service to Google's cloud-based App Engine development stack, is now available in a free preview version, Google announced this week. In a Google Code ...

"It's really about choice," Rohan Kumar, Microsoft's General Manager, Database Systems, told me yesterday as he briefed me on the new offerings. Kumar further explained: "if you're a developer, you ...