Why would you migrate your .NET network from Oracle to SQL Server? The answers may surprise you.

Microsoft is trying to grab Oracle enterprise database users with a new migration offer for SQL Server 2016.

Microsoft is hoping to convince enterprise firms to migrate from other database platforms to SQL Server 2016 by offering free licenses as part of a new promotion.

SQL Server 2025 uses the same underlying code as Cosmos DB for this: a suite of scalable approximate nearest neighbor search algorithms with support for real-time changes called DiskANN.