A fundamental skill for DBAs is to have a firm understanding of the SQL Server database engine's system databases. Tim Chapman discusses these system databases. A fundamental skill for DBAs is to have ...

At the upcoming Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas developer conference, SQL expert Denny Cherry will share essential indexing ...

SQL databases have constraints on data types and consistency. NoSQL does away with them for the sake of speed, flexibility, and scale. One of the most fundamental choices to make when developing an ...

Poke around the infrastructure of any startup website or mobile app these days, and you’re bound to find something other than a relational database doing much of the heavy lifting. Take, for example, ...

In the beginning, there were files. Later there were navigational databases based on structured files. Then there were IMS and CODASYL, and around 40 years ago we had some of the first relational ...

SQL remains the backbone of enterprise data access. Despite the rise of dashboards, semantic layers, and AI-driven analytics, ...

Many embedded applications require a database of sorts, but the type can vary widely from ISAM (Indexed Sequential Access Method) to SQL (structure query language). While SQL is readily available on ...