The advantage of using one connection for multiple statements is that it reduces the overhead of establishing multiple connections, while allowing multiple statements to access the database. The ...

Here’s the problem: Executives greenlight a big project and developers are raring to work on it, but it takes days or weeks for IT to provision a database to get started. Or developers dive in, but ...

If there was just one aspect of relational databases that led to the explosion of non-relational alternatives over the last 10 years, it was the ACID transaction model. ACID transactions were ...

The non-relational database explosion of the late 2000s was motivated by several disenchantments with the—until then—dominant relational database model. A key concern for many involved the overly ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

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A database start up, NuoDB, reached out to me to talk about a project they were working on to address the need for extremely scalable, web scale, transaction oriented database engines. The ...

What do you do when you can't avoid huge transaction logs in SharePoint and your files are too large? Last month, I wrote about how to avoid having ginormous transaction logs within SharePoint ...