On Amazon's Relational Database Service (RDS), customers can run SQL Server as a managed, PaaS database, but storage performance is a maximum of 20,000 IOPS.

It's my first forray into working with databases. <br><br>I've got a pretty good handle on SQL itself (learning more with each new challenge, of course), but my database design skills leave much ...

If you spend any time at all reading IT trade journals and websites, you've no doubt heard about the NoSQL movement. In a nutshell, NoSQL databases (also called post-relational databases) are a ...

Relational database design theory is an enormous topic, but you can learn a few principles that can get help you design an efficient travel database for your website.

Benefits of the Longer Route Of course, many databases do have a limit on the length of SQL statements, but you might be surprised how far one can go. This charac­teristic of relational closure is ...

“The relational database design does not easily support indexing or searching XML,” says Satish Maripuri, president and COO of eXcelon.

In a recent benchmark, Microsoft claims that SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines can be up to 57% faster and cost up to 54% less than running a similar workload on AWS EC2.

Good software habits apply to databases too. Trust in these little design tips to build a useful, rot-resistant database schema.

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.

This online data science specialization is ideal for learners interested in database design, database software fundamentals, and how to use Structured Query Language (SQL) to work with databases. You ...