After building a user-base which includes Comcast, GE, and UPS, Couchbase reached terms with Haveli Investments late last week. In 2021, the company, which has introduced SQL-like features on its ...

The next version of Microsoft’s relational database management system (RDMS) promises to bring immense performance gains to online transactional processing systems. SQL Server 2014 will come ...

I frequently receive the same question from my clients and from the audience at my seminars – “Which recovery model should I use on my SQL Server databases?” Basically, there isn’t a right ...

Our normal practices for backing up SQL servers is to use the regular SQL backup tools to perform full, differential and transaction log backups and this has always worked fine. Recently we ...

Intel has announced that its Haswell architecture, due to ship some time in 2013, will include hardware support for transactional memory. Transactional memory is a promising technique designed to ...

SQL Server, of course, keeps track of everything that affects data in a transaction log, which is periodically rolled over into backup files (at least, if you're being a conscientious DBA it is).

DBMS 2020: State of PlayPrior to 2008, whatever your database question, the answer was always,“Oracle”—or sometimes, “MySQL” or, “SQL Server.” The relational database management system (RDBMS) ...

This brief tutorial will show you how to use a PHP 5.x MySQL extension called, MySQL Improved, to implement MySQL-based transactions with PHP.

The NoSQL acronym suggests it's the SQL language that is the key difference between traditional relational and newer non-relational data stores. However, an equally significant divergence is in the ...