The first two lines define the CONNECT_STRING, which describes the database connection. In this case, the data is provided by a back end SQL Server, which is on a server with IP address 10.0.0.3.

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Oracle, the developer of top-notch, bulletproof SQL databases, has arrived at the hippie fest with a solid, practical, and very Oracle-like NoSQL server.

Cursor more or less behaves like a search engine internally. Users can search for information, which will surface up anything from a Tableau worksheet to an actual segment of SQL.

Best NoSQL Database Look to NoSQL for fast, highly scalable access to free-form data. This comes with a few costs, like consistency of reads and other safeguards common to SQL databases. But for many ...