For the first time in over 20 years, there appear to be cracks forming in the relational model’s dominance of the database management systems market. The relational database management system (RDBMS) ...

One of the interesting design challenges facing the people supporting the IEED research effort discussed yesterday involves how much of the key applications to embed in the database design. In that ...

Some folks think that DBAs and application developers inhabit different universes. At times this may seem to be the case, but the successful DBA must understand application development and the issues ...

Database connectivity gives desktop and Web applications much of their value. .NET developers have products and framework objects that can tie a front-end application to SQL Server, MySQL, Sybase, ...

From the world’s largest cloud computing companies like AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure to visionaries like Databricks, Snowflake and Teradata—Gartner ranks the top cloud database management ...

There are many ways to describe a database: the role it plays in a distributed architecture, the various internal components that make it work, and the various levels that define specific roles and ...

Whether you're building an application database or generating data access code, we've got a round-up of tools to make the job easier. Today you have so many choices when you're developing a ...