For example, you can sort the observations in a normal SAS data set and store the output to another data set. However, in a relational DBMS, sorting data often has no effect on how it is stored.

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 ...

Tables within a database management system (DBMS) need primary keys and defined indexes in order for the DBMS to have the opportunity to provide good query performance. Without indexing, the worst ...

The PL/SQL package DBMS_RANDOM can generate random text and date values as well as numbers. Check out these code examples to learn how you can generate these values in your development work. Numbers, ...

Gartner has issued a new report “The Growing Maturity of Open-Source Database Management Systems” by DBMS analyst Donald Feinberg. Feinberg is an old hand at Gartner, having created the DBMS research ...