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Differences in SQL engines

Differences in SQL engines - Azure Tutorial

From the course: Learning Azure SQL Querying

Differences in SQL engines

- [Instructor] Several vendors make relational database management systems, or RDBMS, that are pieces of software that you install on your database servers that allow you to host and manage several databases. All of them have different costs and trade-offs. One of the most popular options is Microsoft SQL Server, which is what Azure SQL is based on. Azure SQL is one of the ways that you can run Microsoft SQL Server and host several SQL server databases up in the cloud without having to do a lot of server management in an on-premise SQL server install. In the cloud computing world, this is called database as a service. Other popular relational database management systems that you can host on your own servers on-premise or in the cloud are Oracle databases. MySQL started as a free and open source relational database management system and has been popular for running the database for web applications like WordPress. It was…

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