SQL scales, and is versatile and proven, solving problems ranging from fast write-oriented transactions, to scan-intensive deep analytics. SQL is orthogonal to data representation and storage.

Database vs. Application Virtually all of the paraphernalia of the modern SQL-Server style data model evolved in response to the many-single-users nature of the Microsoft client-server world.

By performing these operations inside the database, what you are really doing is pushing application business logic down into the bowels of your database. You are taking this business logic out of ...

Inevitably, the SQL Server or application team will get a call—the mission-critical SQL Server is slowing to a crawl or down completely. While the IT infrastructure managers believed it had high ...

A new application for Blockchain named Catena is being implemented for SQL developers and users. Italian for “chain,” Catena is a database created on a Blockchain and is accessible using SQL.

On Thursday, Google added a good old fashioned SQL database to Google App Engine, a means of building and hosting applications atop Google's online infrastructure. The Google infrastructure is ...