Relational SQL databases, which have been around since the 1980s, historically ran on mainframes or single servers—that’s all we had. If you wanted the database to handle more data and run ...

Relational databases for operations on large data sets are contraindicated because SQL queries tend to consume many CPU cycles and thrash the disk as they process data. If you think we’ve heard ...

Of course, many databases do have a limit on the length of SQL statements, but you might be surprised how far one can go. This charac­teristic of relational closure is useful when the data needs are ...

The functionality is also standardized in ISO/IEC 13249 SQL/MM. This paper presents part 3 of the standard and discusses it critically. The spatial data types and methods on these types are explained.