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.

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Joey on SQL Server How To Automate Tasks in Azure SQL Database Knowing how to automate tasks in the cloud will make you a more productive DBA.

To those uninitiated in how databases work, setting up MySQL for the first time can be daunting. Nevertheless, with a few pointers and concepts, you can quickly get a new MySQL instance up and ...

How will SQL Database Edge connect back to Azure/on-premises? Azure SQL Database Edge has a streaming engine which is built on top of Azure Stream Analytics.

PostgreSQL implementation of document-oriented NoSQL datastore adopted under permissive MIT license The Linux Foundation on ...

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Graph database vs. relational database In a traditional relational or SQL database, the data is organized into tables.

Native support for JSON in the upcoming SQL Server 2016 was buried among the many goodies announced earlier this month for the flagship RDBMS, but it's the feature most requested by data developers, ...