You're a database administrator, working hard, never catching up. You keep the databases humming morning, noon and night, weekdays, weekends and holidays. This type of stress is causing a serious ...

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There's no doubt that the new wave of nonrelational systems represents an important and necessary revolution in database technology. But while we need to avoid being wedded to the technologies of the ...

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 ...

On a typical day, a finance executive has to source accurate business data either by using dashboards in business intelligence tools such as Tableau or Looker, or by running complex SQL queries.

The rapid spread of the SQL Slammer worm showed that highly vulnerable desktop servers are everywhere. Gartner explains how enterprises can shut them down for good.