There's no doubt that the new wave of nonrelational systems represents an important and necessary revolution in database technology. But while we need to avoid being wedded to the technologies of the ...

The rapid spread of the SQL Slammer worm showed that highly vulnerable desktop servers are everywhere. Gartner explains how enterprises can shut them down for good.

Bharat Kumar Dokka is a distinguished Associate Technical Architect with over 15 years of experience in database product ...

On the eve of another Strata week, EMC Greenplum announced Pivotal HD, a Hadoop distribution that is tightly integrated with an MPP database engine called HAWQ. What all this alphabet soup means ...

OK, I need a little help here. I earlier wrote about a nightmare I endured (along with many others) with the evaluation version of SQL Server 2008 R2.