Yesterday, in Your Book as a Database: A Primer, we laid the foundation for thinking of books as relational databases. Today, I want to expand that to demonstrate how you can rate a single book to the ...

Last month we looked at various types of database recovery, how they work, and how DBAs need to prepare for recovery scenarios. This month, let’s delve a little deeper into the issues and decisions ...

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Many teams choose their database before they understand the problem. The product is rarely the issue; the wrong tool category ...

In part 2 of a series, On VB columnist Joe Kunk provides a Visual Basic program to generate a SQL script that clears all the data from a SQL Server database. In part one of this article, I described a ...

In Part 1 of this article I made the point that IT departments almost always think they can—and should—be responsible for the marketing database. I speculated that this is because, when information ...