Edge’s ColdFront could appeal to enterprises looking to reduce storage costs without sacrificing application compatibility or the ability to modify historical data.

Power Query and Power Pivot help Excel users manage large datasets more efficiently. Power Query focuses on cleaning and preparing data, while Power Pivot handles analysis and reporting. Together, ...

The TinyTDS gem is meant to serve the extremely common use-case of connecting, querying and iterating over results to Microsoft SQL Server from Ruby using the FreeTDS's DB-Library API. TinyTDS offers ...

Many information technology (IT) professionals use Windows Software Update Services (WSUS) to manage updates across all their Windows systems and other third-party software. When WSUS is paired with ...

With the latest public preview available, it’s time to decide if you want to upgrade to Microsoft’s most cloud-connected version of SQL Server so far. Three decades on, SQL Server is still a database ...

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This paper aims to establish a relative study between a relational Microsoft SQL Server database and a non-relational MongoDB database within the unstructured representation of data in JSON format.

SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and querying ...