Cloud data platform Snowflake announced its intent to acquire Crunchy Data, a Postgres database partner, late this afternoon.

Defining Managed SQL Services Managed SQL services are cloud-based solutions that give users access to SQL databases without needing to manage the underlying infrastructure. This means the service ...

Databases using a command system separate from SQL are often collectively referred to as NoSQL database systems, sometimes said to stand for "not only SQL," and it can logically take a longer ...

A fundamental skill for DBAs is to have a firm understanding of the SQL Server database engine's system databases. Tim Chapman discusses these system databases. A fundamental skill for DBAs is to ...

SQL Server and Cosmos DB added to data lake platform as lure for building AI features into transactional systems Microsoft is ...

SQL databases have constraints on data types and ... each server node in the cluster operates independently of every other node. The system doesn’t have to get consensus from other nodes to ...

don't understand how databases operate and function. If I had a dollar for every time I've had to explain to a system administrator that, "it's perfectly normal for the SQL Server to be using ...

MS Access is a milder version of the popular client/server database system SQL Server that is ideal for small businesses. However, if necessary, Access databases can be easily converted to SQL Server.

In SQL Server, the database can be stored in different files and filegroups. If your database is small (100 MB or less), you do not need to worry too much about files and filegroups. But if you have a ...