On Thursday, Google announced a whole series of database and data analytics improvements to its cloud data architecture. In this article, we'll focus on the substantial improvements to Spanner and ...

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Microsoft Access is a powerful database that is part of the Microsoft Office package, and by combining its user-friendly ...

SQL is about as easy as it gets in the world of programming, and yet its learning curve is still steep enough to prevent many people from interacting with relational databases. Salesforce’s AI ...

Splitting your Access database offers numerous advantages, including increased flexibility, security, efficiency, and scalability. Splitting your Access database offers numerous advantages, including ...

I have a database that's in 2 files, one ending in .MDF and one ending in .LDF. I did some research, and this appears to be a SQL Server database. I need to convert this to Access. I thought I would ...

In the original proposal for the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: A generic tool could perhaps be made to allow any database which uses a commercial DBMS to be displayed as a hypertext view. We ...

FairCom Corporation announced a new solution for COBOL environments, designed to expose previously inaccessible silos of COBOL data to open access methods. c-treeACE for COBOL is intended to "marry ...

The road to SQL started with Dr. E.F. Codd’s paper, “A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks“, published in Communications of the ACM in June 1970. His colleagues at IBM, Donald ...