You're a database administrator, working hard, never catching up. You keep the databases humming morning, noon and night, weekdays, weekends and holidays. This type of stress is causing a serious ...

However, NoSQL databases are a bit like Hadoop — they had early promise but it fizzled. After 10 years of the NoSQL “revolution,” SQL databases remain the bulk of the database market.

Shortly after the explosion of non-relational databases, around 2009, it became apparent that rather than being part of the problem, SQL would instead continue to be part of the solution. If the new ...

This means that you can now store massive amounts of data in Hadoop, massage it into structured form with MapReduce, and then access it using fully compliant SQL, with screaming performance.

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.

On a typical day, a finance executive has to source accurate business data either by using dashboards in business intelligence tools such as Tableau or Looker, or by running complex SQL queries.