(05/09/11)
Research firm The 451 Group coins "NewSQL" to categorize a new breed of database designed for distributed environments -- like the cloud.
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(09/28/10)
Their differences complement one another, with each delivering functionality the other cannot, occupying different but equally important pieces of the database pie.
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The NoSQL phenomenon is worth keeping an eye on for these five reasons.
(07/30/10)
There will always be a place for relational databases, but non-relational solutions are proving to be fast, flexible, and scalable for many tasks.
(05/03/10)
The NoSQL concept has been attracting a lot of attention in recent years, primarily due to big-name production implementations.
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Get a free download of IBM DB2 Express-C, the free edition of DB2 for Linux, Windows, Solaris, and Mac.
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(09/25/09)
Discover how to call stored procedures and functions in MySQL from PHP using three database extensions: MySQL, MySQLi, and PDO.
(09/18/09)
A corrupt table in MS Access means lost time and data. It can lead to a loss of revenue or even employment. Learn how you might be able to recover most of the data when the worst happens.
(08/11/09)
The key to working with null values properly is to accommodate them consistently. Learn a few tricks that will help you do just that.
(08/05/09)
Routine maintenance can keep index fragmentation to a minimum—with some help from an index-defragmenting script.
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LibreOffice Stabilizes
From the blogs: : Document Foundation proved this week that it's not just a fork in the road for OpenOffice - it's a new direction.
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What is the Top Open Source License?
It all depends on how you ask the question. The most used license is not the same as the license used in the top downloaded open source apps.
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Linux 2.6.39 Released
New kernel released by Linus Torvalds provides performance and virtualization improvements.
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XML is crucial to data exchange but it is also complex and difficult to validate. Is it time to get serious about a simplified version like MicroXML?
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Past Blog Posts:
Understanding Microsoft LightSwitch, aka Visual Studio Lite
Microsoft is continuing to invest in LightSwitch - its new development environment that's supposed to make it super-easy to build business software. Think of LightSwitch as being a "Visual Studio Lite" - it has some of the same capabilities as...
Welcome to the Agile Architecture Revolution
Just as in the early days of SOA, when it was easy to get lost in the technical details of building Services and miss the big picture of business agility, today we're getting lost in the details of the Cloud. If we miss the boat on architecture, the Cloud becomes little more than a way to outsource our data centers. But if we get the architecture right, then Cloud Computing becomes truly transformative: a key enabler of what ZapThink calls the Agile Architecture Revolution.
Is XML too big? Does anyone care?
The Extensible Markup Language, or XML, is big. But is it too big? And if so, should we do anything about it? The World Wide Web Consortium says that XML "is a simple, very flexible text format," but in reality, non-trivial...
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