Have we come full circle in database technologies? At this year’s San Jose Strata conference, Doug Turnbull (@softwaredoug) provided a recap of the last 30 to 40 years of database history, and posed ...

Bharat Kumar Dokka is a distinguished Associate Technical Architect with over 15 years of experience in database product ...

On the eve of another Strata week, EMC Greenplum announced Pivotal HD, a Hadoop distribution that is tightly integrated with an MPP database engine called HAWQ. What all this alphabet soup means is ...

Public cloud services vendors have had a number of notable outages that have taken down well-respected web-based companies, temporarily putting them out of business. In a session, presented at Data ...

The rapid spread of the “SQL Slammer” worm showed that highly vulnerable desktop servers are everywhere. Here’s how enterprises can shut them down for good. What You Need to Know New security concerns ...

OK, I need a little help here. I earlier wrote about a nightmare I endured (along with many others) with the evaluation version of SQL Server 2008 R2. I was surprised ...