I'd like to eventually become a full-time database developer, and I'm leaning toward Microsoft rather than Oracle. Right now I am in a database application support position, supporting various ...

In the wake of a rise of a variety of so-called NoSQL databases, there’s no doubt that data management has become more complex. But the one surprising thing is how constant the use of SQL has been.

When it comes to capturing and analyzing data, IT departments have more choices today than ever before. And choice is a good thing. However, in order to pick the right tool for the job, you need to ...

Apache Hadoop has been a great innovation for storing large amounts of unstructured data, but users still need to reference data from existing RDBMS based systems. Addressing this topic in “From ...