The design of a database determines what method is best suited for backing it up, and those methods vary quite a bit. In order to back up a database, you need to know how it’s delivered, but you also ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. A decade ago, most businesses and organizations typically used one database, and that was ...

Small business owners use databases to keep track of information about their customers. The information they store in their databases help them make marketing decisions and strategically target ...

A database management system, or DBMS, is probably responsible for many important activates you perform daily. A DBMS, for instance, could help your grocery store manager keep supplies in stock. A ...

Key-value, document-oriented, column family, graph, relational… Today we seem to have as many kinds of databases as there are kinds of data. While this may make choosing a database harder, it makes ...

Behind every website, application, enterprise, or any business, research or web content handling with some amount of data there is a database program managing it, and here we have listed the 6 easiest ...

Things break and the DBA must be prepared for situations where a failure impacts the availability, integrity, or usability of a database. Reacting to failures and service disruptions is a key ...

IT organizations are always chasing better performance. This involves monitoring, tuning, and improving all aspects of the IT infrastructure, encompassing servers, networks, applications, desktops, ...