Assuring optimal performance of database applications starts with coding properly formulated SQL. Poorly written SQL and application code is the cause of most performance problems. As much as 75% of ...

RDF store databases facilitate the inner workings of applications that connect data from multiple sources. This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and ...

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A relatively new concept in the world of database systems is the NoSQL DBMS. What is NoSQL? Well, I bet you guessed that it doesn’t use SQL, right? I mean, it is sort of right there in the name. But ...

XML databases can handle data of just about any size or format. This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics.

There a number of pure Java SQL database systems develolpers can embed into applications. In this tip we introduce two open source projects, HSQLDB and Apache Derby.

An open source project gives DBAs the ability to channel PowerShell for automating and scaling complex SQL Server tasks, starting with the most basic: database backups.