In “The end of SQL and relational databases? (part 1 of 3)” I covered some background on the SQL language and relational databases, the current and future for relational databases, the rise of ...

In part 2 of a series, On VB columnist Joe Kunk provides a Visual Basic program to generate a SQL script that clears all the data from a SQL Server database. In part one of this article, I described a ...

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 ...

Although the Macintosh world still lacks a friendly low-end SQL database like Microsoft Access, the quantity and quality of databases available for Mac OS X is incomparable, especially if Oracle ...

Back to the (SQL) Future, Part 3. Opinion. Aug 22, 2017. ... Microsoft Azure SQL Database) Cloud-native or cloud-focused SQL engines (eg Google Spanner, Cockroach Labs, NuoDB) ...

Joey on SQL Server. A Deep Dive Inside Azure SQL Database, Part 1. Microsoft promises 99.995 percent uptime for the Azure SQL platform, which is incredible.

SQL is a relatively innocent bystander, but, because SQL is a universal feature of the RDBMS, the term “NoSQL” seemed a catchy and convenient tag for these new breed of databases. And, it’s true that, ...