On Thursday, Google announced a whole series of database and data analytics improvements to its cloud data architecture. In this article, we'll focus on the substantial improvements to Spanner and ...

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Speculation has been running rampant that Oracle may introduce its own NoSQL database at the OpenWorld conference, to be held next week in San Francisco. While Oracle thus far has been quiet about the ...

Splitting your Access database offers numerous advantages, including increased flexibility, security, efficiency, and scalability. Splitting your Access database offers numerous advantages, including ...

I consider myself an Excel poweruser. I program in it daily (20ish hours a week) and manage a few thousand lines of code for my personal use (stocks and finance). Outside of Excel, I know very little ...

Much of the world's data resides in databases. SQL (or Structured Query Language) is a powerful language which is used for communicating with and extracting data from databases. A working knowledge of ...

Much of the world's data lives in databases. SQL (or Structured Query Language) is a powerful programming language that is used for communicating with and extracting various data types from databases.