To disambiguate three-tier deployments with three-level DBMS architectures, remember this: The three-level architecture deals exclusively with databases. A three-tier deployment architecture a ...

6 Things You Must Know to Avoid Surprises Because tuning database configuration knobs is so complex, the saying "you don't know what you don't know" applies in spades—the entire tuning process can be ...

The C-Store model is based primarily on optimizing the DBMS for retrieving groups of columns rather than groups of rows. In today’s relational database, it’s inexpensive to retrieve all columns for a ...