Can you imagine it? You are in a group of smart database people, and they are debating the finer points about AWS DMS, and you don't even know what the letters stand for. You just feel too shy to ask those basic questions that seem ridiculous once you're up to speed. Laerte Junior answers all the questions you need answers for when facing the prospect of getting familiar with Amazon's useful Database Migration Service.

Back From Vacation and Ready To Go

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

Steve is back and ready to move things forward.

Quickly Restricting Database Access

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Database Journal

Access Control

There may be times when you need to perform maintenance against a database that requires you to keep normal database users from connecting to your database while the maintenance is being performed. You want to stop users from connecting right away, but you want the database to be in a state that you can perform maintenance.

The Slow Week

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

This is usually a slow time for many companies between two holidays, but it doesn't need to be unproductive.

Current State of the NewSQL/NoSQL Cloud Arena

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SimpleTalk

NoSQL / NewSQL

Choosing the right data platform is not an easy task. Warner Chaves compares the capabilities of the big three Database as a Service (DBaaS) offerings, Microsoft’s Cosmos DB, Google’s Cloud Spanner, and Amazon’s DynamoDB, to help you make the right choice for your application.