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 ...

Welcome to the first of a two-part series. In this first part, I'll talk about the physical infrastructure that Microsoft uses to ensure availability and provide a high degree of uptime for the Azure ...

SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and querying ...

The first thing in building any E-commerce app is creating the underlying database to support it. As much as possible, you should try to build your application code and business logic into your ...

If you're developing an application that depends on storing and retrieving large amounts of data, you undoubtedly have discovered how useful a relational database can be. Databases have been around ...

If you are an application developer, you're probably working with large quantities of data. And, if that data is anything more complex than a hash table, you might want to consider moving some or all ...