A fundamental skill for DBAs is to have a firm understanding of the SQL Server database engine's system databases. Tim Chapman discusses these system databases. A fundamental skill for DBAs is to have ...

Thirty-one-year-old Laurie Love is currently staring down the possibility of 99 years in prison. Love was recently told he’ll face extradition to the US, where he stands accused of attacking systems ...

The structured query language is a powerful tool for connecting to many database systems that store data in tables organized into rows and columns. It's often used on the backend of business websites ...

Poke around the infrastructure of any startup website or mobile app these days, and you’re bound to find something other than a relational database doing much of the heavy lifting. Take, for example, ...

Microsoft made a series of database announcements at the Ignite conference, including the general availability of SQL Server ...

If your business uses Microsoft SQL Server, you may want to have multiple instances of servers on multiple computers for synchronization or backup purposes. Microsoft SQL Manager lets you accomplish ...

If you want to take a copy of one table and make a copy of it in another schema (under another username), you can use the SQL*Plus COPY command, or a simple <code>"create table foo as select * from ...

Database connectivity gives desktop and Web applications much of their value. .NET developers have products and framework objects that can tie a front-end application to SQL Server, MySQL, Sybase, ...

In this second delve into data cleanliness (read the first, How clean is your data?, here), we’ll test-drive the data profiling tool provided with Microsoft SQL Server. Other profiling tools have ...

Need help choosing the best Python ORM for your projects? Here's what you need to know about SQLAlchemy, PonyORM, Django ORM, Peewee, SQLObject, and Tortoise ORM. When you want to work with a ...