These days, relational database management systems (RDBMSs) like Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle are the primary engines of information systems everywhere, particularly for enterprise computing systems and web applications. Though RDBMSs are now common enough to trip over, it wasn’t always that way.
Timewarp: What Is a Relational Database?
Filed Under: Architecture, BigData, Cloud, Cool Technologies, Databases, NoSQL, Opinion, SQL Server, SQLMag, SQLServerPedia Syndication Tagged With: Azure, cloud computing, DBA, Developer, NoSQL, Oracle, SQL Server 2012
Two TechNet Radio Sessions You Don’t Want to Miss
Database expert Kevin Kline and friends discuss BigData, Hadoop, cloud databases, and Azure on Microsoft SQL Server 2012.
Filed Under: Administration, Architecture, BigData, Cloud, Databases, NoSQL, On-Line Resources, SQL Server, SQLServerPedia Syndication, TCD blog post, Video Tagged With: Azure, BigData, cloud computing, Crowdsourcing, DBA, Developer, Hadoop, NoSQL, Quest Software, SQL Server 2012, Video
New Toad for SQL Server Beta
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Azure Trust Services
Microsoft recently launched Trust Services for Windows Azure, an application-level encryption framework that can be used to protect sensitive data stored on the Windows Azure Platform. Read more…
Filed Under: Cloud, Databases, NoSQL, SQL Server, SQLMag, SQLServerPedia Syndication, TCD blog post Tagged With: Azure, cloud, Developer, Security, SQL Server 2012
PASS Summit 2011, Day 3 – A Tribute to Wayne Snyder
Here’s my tribute to Wayne Snyder, rolling off the PASS board of directors at the end of this year.
Filed Under: BigData, Conferences, Databases, NoSQL, PASS, Presentations, SQLMag, SQLServerPedia Syndication, TCD blog post Tagged With: FutureWatch, Hadoop, MapReduce, SQLPASS
What I’m Reading, July 22 2011
Kevin shares articles on BigData, Federal government IT and cloud computing, Microsoft research into data analytics and BigData, hashtags in social media, and max degrees of parallelism.
Getting Ahead of the Curve – Big Data
The “big data” concept will change our world as much as the “data processing” concept changed the world of the 1970′s.
Filed Under: Administration, BigData, Challenges, Databases, NoSQL, SQL Server, SQLMag, SQLServerPedia Syndication, TCD blog post Tagged With: Best Practices, Big Data, Career, cloud computing, DBA, FutureWatch, SQL Server 2008 R2
NOSQL- A Quick Overview
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Toad for SQL Gets 5 Diamonds from SQL Server Magazine
Filed Under: Cloud, Databases, NoSQL, SQL Server, TCD blog post Tagged With: DBA, Developer, Quest Software, Toad
How Much Data is a Lot of Data?
It’s always interesting to see the guestimations of the big brains about figures and facts that are hard to verify. Here’s an example – how much data is computerized today?
Filed Under: Databases, NoSQL, Opinion, SQL Server, SQLMag, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Trends Tagged With: cloud computing, DBTA, FutureWatch
