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Forge 2025.3 adds AI Assistant to SQL Complete, supports SSMS 22, Visual Studio 2026, MySQL 9.5, MariaDB 12.2, and ...

Oracle announced it evaluated MCP and has integrated it into its core developer tools, making the Oracle Database immediately available on any platform supporting MCP. This integration is made ...

With native support for Oracle Databases, the MCP server will allow developers to build AI agents that can autonomously query, reason, and generate insights without custom integration layers. Oracle ...

Oracle Corp. today unveiled MCP Server for Oracle Database, a new Model Context Protocol offering that brings artificial intelligence-powered interaction directly into its core database platform to ...

Despite its steep licensing costs, SQL Server continues to prove its worth over open-source alternatives in some key areas. SQL Server is an expensive part of your IT stack -- SQL Server Enterprise ...

Oracle SQL Developer allows you to connect and manage databases. It is probably the easiest way to run any query as it gives the result in a tabular format. However, we have also noticed that, in some ...

Product Azure Azure Data Lake Azure Synapse Analytics SQL Server 2022 Ever since Microsoft introduced SQL Server Stretch Database in 2016, our guiding principles for such hybrid data storage solutions ...