Last week, Codd's widow, Sharon, said she is working on a new relational enterprise management system that will translate business knowledge described by business professionals into working ...

Relational database management systems (RDBMS) rely on an optimizer (or relational optimizer) that transforms SQL statements into executable code. Before any SQL statement can be run by the RDBMS, the ...

Since the rise of the Web, SQL-based relational databases have been the dominant structured storage technology behind online applications. The past few years have seen the emergence of the cloud as a ...

Bob Muglia is something of a bard of databases, capable of unfurling sweeping tales in the evolution of technology. That is what Muglia, former Microsoft executive and former Snowflake CEO, did ...

In a world that is all about new apps and cloud computing, sometimes the important stuff doesn’t look new or cool. Sometimes key small business tools are just functional, they might have been around a ...

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 ...

Here’s some unusual news: AWS, Amazon’s cloud computing arm, today announced that it plans to bring its Relational Database Service (RDS) to VMware, no matter whether that’s VMware Cloud on AWS or a ...

Every decade seems to have its database. During the 1990s, the relational database became the principal data environment, its ease of use and tabular arrangement making it a natural for the growing ...

Travelers Insurance is one of the top writers of commercial, property, and casualty insurance in the United States. As a senior architect, I’ve seen the industry evolve tremendously over the last 10+ ...