Let’s start by taking a step back. SQL is a programming language that has existed since the early 1970’s for interacting with relational databases. Which raises the question, “What’s a relational ...

Sybase CTO Irfan Khan said that adding MapReduce functionality to the Sybase IQ analytic should significantly boost its performance. Who says there is a war raging between traditional SQL database ...

The word on the street is that not too many folks in the trenches are being swayed by the various "express" versions of relational databases (RDBs) being hawked for "free" by the likes of IBM, Oracle, ...

Migrating from an RDBMS to NoSQL can improve scalability and flexibility. Explore top NoSQL databases and best practices for migrating data. The phenomenon of big data continues to underscore the ...

Bringing relational data into XML formats is a major task for many developers these days. XML has clear benefits as a lingua franca for integration, but it must co-exist with a well-established body ...

A name must start with a letter. A name can be from 1 to 30 characters long. A name can contain the letters A through Z, the digits 0 through 9, the underscore (_), and the dollar sign ($). (Although ...

Relational database specialist RDB Consulting has appointed Siphokazi Zamxaka as its Service Delivery Manager. Before joining RDB, Zamxaka was a business development manager at consulting firm, Idol.

Who says there is a war raging between traditional SQL database vendors and the upstarts touting the so-called ‘NoSQL’ technology? A slew of relational database vendors, ranging from startups touting ...