i have a syslog collector setup to push all events from many processes into a database. taking one process, squid, i'm trying to put the Message column from the SystemEvents table into another ...

SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database both give you tables that automatically keep track of changes to your data. Here's how to both create those tables and alter existing tables so they track the ...

DBAs spend a lot of time on tuning application code and SQL statements to boost efficiency and optimize access. But SQL is only one aspect of database systems performance. It is also important for ...

Teradata Mixes, Matches Database Rows, Columns George Leopold Seeking to improve access to data stored in columnar tables and, with it, speed up query performance, big data and marketing applications ...

One popular solution is an ORM (object-relational mapper), which allows us to write our programs using objects. The ORM then translates those objects and method calls into the appropriate SQL, which ...

There's a very handy new tool from Microsoft called the Database Experimentation Assistant (DEA). The DEA makes it very easy to conduct A/B testing for SQL Server upgrades, providing quantitative ...