Database connectivity gives desktop and Web applications much of their value. .NET developers have products and framework objects that can tie a front-end application to SQL Server, MySQL, Sybase, ...

With its January 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle gained the MySQL open source database management software (DBMS) platform for enterprise IT environments. MySQL, which uses SQL ...

One of the interesting design challenges facing the people supporting the IEED research effort discussed yesterday involves how much of the key applications to embed in the database design. In that ...

Oracle has released a set of 49 patches that addresses new flaws in multiple versions of its Database Server, Application Server, Collaboration Suite, E-Business and Applications, and Enterprise ...

As developers look to harness the power of AI in their applications, one of the most exciting advancements is the ability to enrich existing databases with semantic understanding through vector search ...

Let's rephrase the question above: The next ticking time bomb is your database. Regardless of whether you run Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, or MySQL, the odds lean toward your organization having a ...

From performance to programmability, the right database makes all the difference. Here are 13 key questions to guide your selection. Picking the “right” database can often be critical to the success ...

Moving virtualization up the stack toward mission-critical status is also about application portability, Staten adds. “With server virtualization, organizations can build a server image really quickly ...

We’ve all done it. We needed to pull data out of an SQL database, and the query we needed to pull out data was a complex query with multiple table joins, complex filter criteria, and sophisticated ...

The server-side architecture of an application can have a significant impact on how well the application performs. I’ve seen examples where an application server had to make queries against a database ...