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 ...

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.

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.

If screaming speed in data access is the most important thing in your life, SQL Server's durable in-memory, memory-optimized tables are your answer. They were good in SQL Server 2014 and they're even ...

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 ...