TiDB is a prime example of an intrinsically scalable and reliable distributed SQL database architecture. Here’s how it works. In the good old days, databases had a relatively simple job: help with the ...

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With the official release of Microsoft's latest database offering, let's see what was improved and what still needs some work ...

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Databases are a lot like programming languages: there’s a great variety to choose from, they have wildly different programming and query interfaces, and there’s a wide gap in available features. And ...

Microsoft Azure SQL Database is an excellent Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) solution for developers, business analysts, and database administrators given its ease of use and exemplary controls.

Kevin Xu is general manager of global strategy and operations at PingCAP. TiDB is an open-source, cloud-native, MySQL-compatible distributed database that handles hybrid transactional and analytical ...

Microsoft broke new ground in scalability when it launched Azure SQL Database Hyperscale. Here's what it took to make Microsoft's hyperscale vision work with the existing Azure infrastructure. When ...

This section describes how to retrieve DBMS data by using the statements and components of the SQL Procedure Pass-Through Facility to access DBMS data. The Pass-Through Facility uses the SAS/ACCESS ...

Robin has held senior executive positions at VERITAS, Mercury, and most recently, at HP’s $3 billion portfolio of IT Management, Information Management, and Application Security products as VP/General ...