21 Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft has been committed to open source for a long time—and recently, efforts have intensified even further. Microsoft's database management system, SQL Server, is not yet open source (but perhaps at some point in the future!). Nevertheless, you can access it with PHP.
The battle of the individual database manufacturers is in full swing. Microsoft lagged behind for a long time and did not even have its own product. But then a pattern emerged that had already been crowned with success in many other places. First, a competing product was bought up—in this case, by Sybase. The intermediate goal was to gain market presence. Then the company from Redmond hired some of the brightest minds in the industry and rebuilt and ...
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