With so much hype around AI, generative AI and cybersecurity, it can be tough to generate excitement around something as ubiquitous as databases. But without that foundation, none of today’s tech – ...

A practical guide to how databases work, covering schema design, SQL, indexing, transactions, concurrency, caching, pagination, and database selection.

Microsoft has entered the final phase of retiring Azure SQL Data Sync, blocking new deployments in subscriptions that have ...

Enterprises continue to march their applications and workloads into the cloud, but, for many, a database migration to the cloud feels like a bridge too far. Gartner predicts 75% of databases will run ...

SQL Server backups cannot be restored to older versions directly. Use Export and Import Data-Tier Application for cross-version database migration. Reconfigure permissions, logins, and connection ...

At its re:Invent conference, Amazon’s AWS cloud computing unit today announced Amazon Aurora DSQL, a new serverless, distributed SQL database that promises high availability (99.999% for multi-region ...

SQL has dominated data querying for decades. Newer query languages offer more elegance, simplicity, and flexibility for modern use cases. For the last three decades, databases and Structured Query ...

Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system that can support a wide range of applications, but the data must be readily available to those applications whenever they need it. Any ...