NewSQL: The Relational Model Meets Distributed Architectures
Research firm The 451 Group coins "NewSQL" to categorize a new breed of database designed for distributed environments -- like the cloud.
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Cloud Computing
Managing Data in the Cloud
Crunching data or having access to vast amounts of data is crucial for many applications.
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The cornucopia of products for handling distributed data in the cloud includes everything from lightweight key-value stores to industrial-strength databases
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Databases in the Cloud: Elysian Fields or Briar Patch?
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Cloud Computing with Microsoft Azure SDS
Don Schlichting introduces the Microsoft Azure service and explores the SQL Data Services (SDS).
2009-07-21
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The Large Encoded Value
I want to use the new BASE64_ENCODE() function in SQL Server 2025, but return a string that isn't large type. What is the longest varbinary string I can pass in and still get a varchar(8000) returned?
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