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When and how to migrate data from SQL to NoSQL are matters of much debate. It can certainly be a daunting task, but when your SQL systems hit architectural limits or your cloud provider expenses ...

TiDB is a prime example of an intrinsically scalable and reliable distributed SQL database architecture. Here’s how it works. In the good old days, databases had a relatively simple job: help with the ...

In the meantime, the big question for data leaders is where to implement this logic. The market has split into two ...

Earlier this year, analyst firm Gartner came up with a name for a category of hybrid processing that it believes will cause upheaval in established architectures. The ...

To meet the needs of the digital economy of the 2020s, data architecture has evolved into a dif­ferent animal than it was 10, or even 5, years ago. Most notably, there are three trends that have ...

In recent releases of SQL Server, Microsoft has delivered a great deal of feature enhancements and performance improvements. This rapid delivery has been facilitated by some development changes at ...

Digital transformation. Infrastructure modernization. Global data center demands. All these forces and more are driving enterprises around the world to seek out next generation cloud-based ...

In a server room in Ashburn, Virginia, thousands of database transactions execute every second, processing healthcare enrollment decisions that determine whether working families can afford medical ...

In the second part of this interview with Microsoft partner architect Conor Cunningham, we talk about Microsoft's use of telemetry to improve SQL Server and Azure SQL. We also discuss the changes the ...