SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and ...

Relational database management systems (RDBMS) rely on an optimizer (or relational optimizer) that transforms SQL statements into executable code. Before any SQL statement can be run by the RDBMS, the ...

The first step in the long journey of SQL/XML hybridization was to publish relational data as XML. BEA Chief Architect Adam Bosworth, who worked on the idea’s SQL Server implementation, calls it ...

A relational database is a set of formally described tables from which data can be accessed or reassembled in many different ways without having to reorganize the database tables. The standard user ...

What does relational database actually mean? ... DB2, SQL Server, MySQL, etc., is a relational DBMS (RDBMS) (see DBMS). Hierarchical, Network and Object Databases.

SQL is, and will likely remain, one of the most popular and successful computer languages of all time. SQL-aware development tools, reporting tools, monitoring tools, and connectors are available ...

The market is abuzz with terms like NoSQL, Big Data, NewSQL, Database Appliance, etc. Often, IT decision makers can get very confused with all the noise. They do not understand why they should ...

Last issue I talked about Thor Technologies, its new round of funding and its "best of breed" solutions. But what the Thor folks really wanted to talk about was the use of SQL-based relational ...

Microsoft's relational database engine has had the same licensing model since 2012. The new version released this week brings significant changes that brings SQL Server closer to Azure SQL's ...

Microsoft introduced a preview of the latest edition of its flagship RDBMS, SQL Server 2019, highlighting new Big Data capabilities. The company said v2019 creates a unified data platform by packaging ...