If the intent is to persist to disk objects that traditionally were persisted to memory, like e-commerce shopping carts or a product catalog, then a NoSQL solution like MongoDB, Riak,...

One problem with having a vanity job description like "Data Artist" or "Software Application Czar" is that you can't easily line up your compensation with Salary.com or some other industry...

If someone wants to shell out $3000 for an IoT enabled refrigerator, whether it be for their business or home, then that's their prerogative. However, the industry is very out...

I can see the potential of IoT for use in applications that really matter like: weather and traffic monitoring, law enforcement, or healthcare. However, there has yet to be made...

If anyone should commit (proverbial) Hara-Kiri over this, it should be the CTO, not the DBA.

Wow, that Reddit post was submitted only 11 days ago, and already it has 4,512 comments. It's quickly evolved into a full length novel. Based at least on the information provided...

I can see where a DBA might want to limit "how" authorized users access the database. For example, you may have power users who legitimately need ad-hoc read access to...

The original "bug" was an actual bug that crawled into a mainframe computer...

The DMV sys.dm_exec_requests will return one row for each active session / request. The column [total_elapsed_time] contains the total milliseconds since the request started, and by constrast the column [cpu_time]...

In addition to poor sampling, often times researchers, the media, and politicians try to gleam specific conclusions or score talking points from vaguely defined questions or "facts" that appear alarming...

RDMS locking can seem like a game of "Rock, Paper, Scissors". Data Readers (which can include DML operations in addition to SELECT statements) take out both shared locks and schema...