A database that maintains a set of separate, related files (tables), but combines data elements from the files for queries and reports when required. The concept was developed in 1970 by Edgar Codd, ...

Most database startups avoid building relational databases, since that market is dominated by a few goliaths. Oracle, MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server have embedded themselves into the technical fabric ...

Are vendor claims that big data, IoT and NoSQL killed RDBMS credible? Nothing is that simple in the enterprise data center. I recently received a promotional message from a PR representative of a ...

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Reports of the death of the relational database have been greatly exaggerated – at least in the enterprise. According to a new study from Progress Software – the company’s latest annual data ...

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Bob Muglia is something of a bard of databases, capable of unfurling sweeping tales in the evolution of technology. That is what Muglia, former Microsoft executive and former Snowflake CEO, did ...

A relational database is a set of formally described tables from which data can be accessed or reassembled in many different ways without having to reorganize the database tables. The standard user ...

perspectives The relational database so dominates the thinking of information technology and business professionals that its presumed suitability for essentially all data management tasks is rarely ...