SQL stands for Structured Query Language. It’s a standard language for accessing and manipulating databases. MySQL is a database management system, like SQL Server, Oracle, Informix, Postgres, etc.

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Microsoft has announced support for MySQL and PostgreSQL as fully managed instances on the Azure cloud platform. Additionally, the company has also launched a new NoSQL database called Cosmos DB with ...

Both MySQL and PostgreSQL are now generally available on the Azure Database service, Microsoft announced recently. The two open source database management systems, which have been in preview on Azure ...

Code that Microsoft made available under a public licence earlier this year will be in the next production release of the open-source database MySQL MySQL developers have used Microsoft source code in ...

Sun Microsystems set the stage for a heavyweight database battle with one-time close partner Oracle and longtime rival Microsoft with its $1 billion acquisition of open source database kingpin MySQL ...

"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 ...