A fundamental skill for DBAs is to have a firm understanding of the SQL Server database engine's system databases. Tim Chapman discusses these system databases. A fundamental skill for DBAs is to have ...

So I was looking at doing some development for WP7 and was shocked (shocked I tell ya) to discover that WP7 has only XML as a persistent storage system. Frankly this seems like a massive backwards ...

Microsoft's press event today was centered around how the company handles 'big data", and the presentation did not deviate from that theme. Today, the company announced not only SQL Server 2014, the ...

Pairing your on-prem SQL Server with a cloud-based instance for high availability has its challenges, but they can be overcome. Here’s how. The geographic distribution of cloud data centers makes it ...

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SQL databases have constraints on data types and consistency. NoSQL does away with them for the sake of speed, flexibility, and scale. One of the most fundamental choices to make when developing an ...

I've developed some pretty nifty software for a client (using php/mysql), and the client now wants to re-sell it to other businesses. I've got no qualms about this, but we're wondering about the best ...

SQL Server databases often contain precious data such as customer information, financial records, and account passwords—assets that are often both essential to the business and subject to compliance ...