A new generation of graph databases has taken hold, and a generation of query languages has arrived alongside them. The assorted graph database query languages include the likes of Gremlin, Cypher, ...

A common SQL habit is to use SELECT * on a query, because it’s tedious to list all the columns you need. Plus, sometimes those columns may change over time, so why not just do things the easy way? But ...

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 ...

Designing an appropriate set of indexes can be one of the more troubling aspects of developing efficient relational database applications. Perhaps, the most important thing you can do to assure ...

The role of the DBA is complex, requiring expertise in designing, implementing, managing, and tuning database systems. DBAs are also tasked with supporting developers, so they need to understand how ...