Tag: sql

January 18, 2024

Systems management and security software provider Quest Software is shipping Toad Data Studio, a platform for streamlining database management in heterogeneous relational and NoSQL database environments. Announced January 17, Toad Data Studio allows users to manage nearly any database platform […]

December 20, 2023

SQL is the leading language for developing and querying databases, but it has a few quirks. In my last article, I shared 7 SQL mistakes to avoid. Now, let’s take a look at 9 best practices for writing faster SQL […]

June 24, 2022

One of the most fundamental choices to make when developing an application is whether to use a SQL or NoSQL database to store the data. Conventional databases, meaning relational databases that use SQL (Structured Query Language) for queries, are the […]

June 24, 2022

In case you are wondering who “she” is and what school she went to, Doris is an open source, SQL-based massively parallel processing (MPP) analytical data warehouse that was under development at Apache Incubator. Last week, Doris achieved the status […]

April 12, 2022

In 2019, Microsoft introduced new restrictions on how customers could run some of its server products on rival cloud offerings, to the dismay of companies like AWS and Google. But it turns out Windows Server and SQL Server weren’t the […]

November 18, 2021

Recently, the Apache Kylin community released a major update with the general availability of Kylin 4. Kylin 4 continues the mission to provide a unified, high-performance, cloud-friendly, open source OLAP (online analytical processing) platform. Kylin 4 upgrades the Kylin architecture […]

June 24, 2019

Google Cloud said it has integrated Kaggle with its BigQuery, enterprise data warehouse. Kaggle, which was acquired by Google in March 2017, specializes in Jupyter notebooks used by data scientists. The integration allows BigQuery customers use fast SQL queries, train […]

May 23, 2017

In 2005 when Google was a $6.1 billion business, the database that underpinned the company’s primary cash cow – it’s AdWords online advertising platform that accounted for more than 95% of its revenue – was not keeping up with the […]

May 5, 2017

For many organizations, moving applications that can tolerate brief periods of downtime to the cloud is a straightforward decision with clear benefits. The cost justification is usually easy to figure out and the cloud almost always comes out looking like […]