eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. by Chris Preimesberger Concurrency arises whenever ...

Distributed transactions are one of the more powerful and important functions within SQL Server. A distributed transaction is just like any other transaction within the SQL Server database, with a ...

The introduction of increased transactional capability into non-relational databases makes sense-in the same way that providing SQL layers on top of Hadoop and many other non-relational stores makes ...

SQL databases have constraints on data types and consistency. NoSQL does away with them for the sake of speed, flexibility, and scale.

The term 'NoSQL' is widely acknowledged as an unfortunate and inaccurate tag for the non-relational databases that have emerged in the past five years. The databases that are associated with the NoSQL ...

If you put your databases in Simple Recovery Model, it tells the SQL Server CHECKPOINT process to write the transactions from the T-log to the data file and after a successful write, to purge them ...

FoundationDB isn’t some new non-profit, nor is it a new book from Isaac Asimov. It’s actually a new database and company that’s pushing transaction and ACID compliance into the NoSQL fray ...

Via a 7.0 upgrade, Couchbase is adding support for multi-statement SQL transactions to reduce database costs.

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 ...

Security flaws discovered in Oracle's enterprise database application could in theory affect virtually all financial transactions. However, the company is playing down any potential security risks ...