SQL databases have constraints on data types and consistency. NoSQL does away with them for the sake of speed, flexibility, and scale. One of the most fundamental choices to make when developing an ...

The last company I worked at was a Rails shop, so we had activerecord migrations. It wasn't perfect (nothing is), but at least our schema was in source control and there was a reasonable way to move ...

Hi,<BR><BR>Recently in developing an application it has become clear that using a *.mdb file will be far easier than deploying MSDE and the speed and functionality of MSDE isn't fully needed.

SQL Server 2016, the next major release of Microsoft’s flagship database and analytics platform (which is available as a Community Technology Preview [CTP] as of this writing), includes exciting ...

SQL remains the backbone of enterprise data access. Despite the rise of dashboards, semantic layers, and AI-driven analytics, ...

Microsoft unveiled .NET Aspire at the Build 2024 developer conference, describing it as an opinionated, cloud-ready stack for building observable, production ready, distributed, cloud-native ...