Whatever form, shape and type of database we chose to use, the software that drives it fundamentally depends upon a chunk of hardware to exist, wherever that may be. So being effecient with ...

Things break and the DBA must be prepared for situations where a failure impacts the availability, integrity, or usability of a database. Reacting to failures and service disruptions is a key ...

The best database software makes it simple and easy to build your own relational and non-relational databases, or manage existing ones. There are many different options, all of which allow for the ...

Learning databases opens up a huge number of well-paid job positions such as database analyst, software developer, database administrator, web developer and many more. Let’s start with a database.

Oracle (ORCL 3.18%) has been in the database business for more than 40 years. Its database software, running on customers' hardware and increasingly in the cloud, is mission-critical for a wide ...

The different types of data models. There are several types of data models that businesses can use. The three most common types are relational, dimensional and entity-relationship (ER). Relational ...

Last month we looked at various types of database recovery, how they work, and how DBAs need to prepare for recovery scenarios. This month, let's delve a little deeper into the issues and decisions ...