Google Cloud Spanner is a managed distributed database that has the scalability of NoSQL databases while retaining SQL compatibility, relational schemas, ACID transactions, and external consistency.

What is a developer who wants a light-weight, file-sharing based database to do? The answer is SQL Server Everywhere (SSEv). Like Jet, it is an in-process, file-sharing based engine. Though it lacks t ...

All databases were tested on the same hardware platform (Hewlett-Packard Co. provided HP NetServer LT 6000r servers with four 700MHz Xeon CPUs, 2GB of RAM and 24 10,000-rpm 9.1GB Ultra3 SCSI hard ...

In SQL Server, the initial dialect for stored procedures (or stored procs) was Transact-SQL, aka T-SQL; in Oracle, it was PL-SQL. Both databases have added additional languages for stored ...

Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools. To provide an example using real source, I created a simple Winforms ...