Bob Muglia is something of a bard of databases, capable of unfurling sweeping tales in the evolution of technology. That is what Muglia, former Microsoft executive and former Snowflake CEO, did ...

Relational calculus. Query processing and optimization. Transaction processing: failure, recovery, and concurrency. Database security. Logic-based systems. Parallel ...

Relational databases and SQL were invented in the 1970s, but still dominate the data world today. Why? Relational calculus, consistent data, logical data representation are all reasons that a ...

For over two decades, Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft relational databases were the only consistent leaders in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems--and there were few ...

A database that maintains a set of separate, related files (tables), but combines data elements from the files for queries and reports when required. The concept was developed in 1970 by Edgar Codd, ...

Users who eschew traditional relational databases in favor of the newly emerging NoSQL databases might be “throwing the baby out with the bath water,” warned a database pioneer before a roomful of ...

Everyone knows what a simple database is: Telephone directories, mail-order catalogs and dictionaries are all databases of sorts. Databases can be structured or organized in several different ways: as ...

If you want to know what’s what in Big Data analytics today, you’ve got to know the basics of NoSQL databases, and how appropriate NoSQL databases facilitate Big Data analytics. What are the most ...

Relational databases and the software that access them can be invaluable tools to businesses. Popular relational database management systems include Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, as well as ...

Relational SQL databases, which have been around since the 1980s, historically ran on mainframes or single servers—that’s all we had. If you wanted the database to handle more data and run faster, you ...

A relational database is a set of formally described tables from which data can be accessed or reassembled in many different ways without having to reorganize the database tables. The standard user ...