I've installed Horizon View, VMware's Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) product, dozens of times over the past decade. With each release, for the most part, the installation process gets easier and ...

Microsoft today announced an interesting update to its database lineup with the preview of Azure SQL Database Edge, a new tool that brings the same database engine that powers Azure SQL Database in ...

Relational SQL databases, which have been around since the 1980s, historically ran on mainframes or single servers—that’s all we had. If you wanted the database to handle more data and run faster, you ...

I've been playing around with the new Microsoft service, currently in preview and it's time to show off what it can do. Have you ever struggled with a database performance problem or ever struggled to ...

The structured query language is a powerful tool for connecting to many database systems that store data in tables organized into rows and columns. It's often used on the backend of business websites ...

Data estates are expansive. Organizations in all business verticals are operating data stacks that run on a mixture of legacy technologies that work effectively but aren’t always easy to move or ...

Online analytical processing (OLAP) databases are purpose-built for handling analytical queries. Analytical queries run on online transaction-processing (OLTP) databases often take a long time to ...

Having recently set up an old desktop as a dev machine in order to avoid trashing my main computer with evaluation software (don't get me started), I decided it was time to try out Visual Studio 11 ...

You probably don't want to see any more factoids about how much data the world generates every day. We certainly don't. Let's just agree that the data frenzy in the world today is outpacing not just ...

In SQL Server, the database can be stored in different files and filegroups. If your database is small (100 MB or less), you do not need to worry too much about files and filegroups. But if you have a ...